Three and a half years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, literature commemorating the tragic events has struck a chord with the public.

There have already been some poems, screenplays and documentaries, but no real literary works attracting large groups of readers. This blank is now being filled with the release of a series of stories about 9/11 and its aftermath by the world's most celebrated writers.

French writer Frederic Beigbeder's Window on the World is the moving story of a father and his son having breakfast on 107th floor of the World Trade Center. The book rapidly climbed to the top of the bestseller chart in France as soon as it was published.

Also striking is Jonathan Safran Foer's effort, titled "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" which tells the story of a boy's journey to understand his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks.

American writer Reynolds Price's "The Good Priest's Son" tells of an art restorer whose flight back to the United States is diverted to Nova Scotia on the morning of Sept.11, while his apartment in Lower Manhattan is blasted with debris.

British writer Ian McEwan, renowned for his novel Atonement, also mentions the attacks in his latest book "Saturday". It tells the story of an otherwise contented neurosurgeon troubled by the state of the world and the series of disastrous consequences he faces after an encounter with a small-time thug.
 
Editor: Catherine