Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015) and by a past that

and by a past that threatens her conscience

how one Australian scientist convinced the world he'd discovered the cause of stomach ulcers by drinking a glass filled with bacteria

To have a hope of winning

and his days as the notorious college Lothario

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015) and by a past thatIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9 11, nine year old Oskar discovers a key The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar inventor, letter writer and amateur detective across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises