Now a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, this is the story of nine-year-old Oskar – inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective.
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, 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 across New York and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back 50 years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?

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"Utterly engaging. From the very first page it is a hugely involving read ... a heartbreaker: tragic, funny, intensely moving." – Spectator