a kid in New York receives from his father a reassuring message on the phone: "Is there a problem here in the Twin Towers, but it's all under control." It is the September 11, 2001. Among the things his father died he finds an envelope with the name Black and a key to these two elements cling to re-establish the relationship and to compensate for a truncated emotional void that not even the mother able to overcome. Start a trip to the city in search of the mysterious Mr. Black: a journey full of encounters that led him to finally give the enigmatic discovery and response to your query. It will be especially the encounter with his grandfather in him to find a world of suffering, and reopen it to life.
Jonathan Safran Foer is without a doubt one of the greatest writers of our day, and the fact that it is so young fills me with joy and hope.
I believe the narrative that an investigator can, with clarity and humor to represent the great ancient tragedies. After "Everything Is Illuminated" I found a book so rich in ideas and feelings to be considered a masterpiece, I started the letter of his second novel with high expectations.
have not been disappointed.
The unmistakable style of the author, who can create characters from the multi-faceted personality remained.
Of course the story changes. This is always a search, the perpetual search for ancestors, the origins of self and daily events.
I do not know what the Jewish background of the author weights on this continuous migration of the protagonists.
A journey without a destination because life itself is the journey not arrival.
The main strand of the novel is the story of the little that Oskar has lost his father on 11 September and trying to find a part of him through a key.
But it is also the story of his grandparents, how they fled the bombing of Dresden to become unable to meet. She eyes him a failure and unable to speak.
There are very poetic interludes of the family as the memories of the child, but there are also images that accompany the reading, making it almost three-dimensional history. The last pages are really brilliant.
The message of the novel is clear, it can happen to all be destroyed by something bigger than us, but you must find the strength to go forward, despite the agony. But, above all, I have not grasped the need to leave to spend time unnecessarily and always say to people that are close to what is important to us. To have no regrets. September 11
A novel written without rhetoric, without controversy, serious reflection on the transience of human certainties.
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