Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

《极度喧嚣与异样紧密》是弗尔的第二部小说，比之他的上一部作品《一切了然》得到更大的成功，在这部"9•11"伤痕文学中，9岁的小主人公奥斯卡多才多艺，满脑子奇想，他父亲在纽约世贸中心遇难后留下一把用途不明的钥匙。书中，奥斯卡一边构思着危急时能拯救家人幸免于难的古怪发明,一边从中央公园跑到康尼岛,再绕回哈林区,寻访钥匙的来历。途中他认识了一个又一个纽约畸人,这些人都是某个事件的幸存者。所有的回忆震耳欲聋地回荡着失去挚爱的痛苦。
深刻的内涵加上离奇的故事,让这部作品长踞畅销书排行榜之列。这个小说的奇特之处是把许多摄影作品夹在故事叙述中，结尾部分是一组照片，一个人从世贸中心大楼跳下来的全过程
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.