Extremely Lou and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer. It was one of the first novels to deal with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book is an example of an emerging school of contemporary post-modernism which challenges the technical limitations of the novel to create a more immersive work. Foer, like his friend and sometime collaborator Dave Eggers, is often called a product of the information age. He brings a multimedia sensibility to this book. He uses type settings, spaces and even blank pages to give the book a visual dimension beyond the prose narrative. The photographs one narrator takes appear in the book as if inserted into a diary, and in the visual trick that made this book famous, Foer makes a flip book in the final pages out of photographer Lyle Owerko's shot of the Falling Man, making the man who had jumped from the burning World Trade Center appear as though he is falling up. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. Two years before the story begins, Oskar loses his father on 9/11. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father. Oskar's last statement in the book, after having described what would have happened if the day of 9/11 could be reversed, is, "We would have been safe." The main character shares many stylistic similarities (and first name) with Oskar Matzerath from Gunter Grass' "the Tin Drum," most notably his constant carrying of a tambourine in place of Grass' drum.