sentences:  "The History of Love" was published in early 2005 as was "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", written by Jonathan Safran Foer who had just married Krauss.Both books feature a precocious youth who set out in New York City on a quest.Both protagonists encounter old men with memories of World War II (a Holocaust survivor in Krauss and a survivor of the Dresden firebombing in Foer).