Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.
看到这本名字怪怪的书,心中一凛. 章节从2开始,然后是3,然后是5、7、11…… 慢慢才明白,不是章节数错了,都是质数。 记得前时读过的一本书,说到质数,说到彼此孤独的质数。 心中倏忽一动,如潮涌过…… 留心世界的人,处处都有江山。 这句话从某一个哀伤的故事里读来...
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评分孤单的人都有丰富的内心世界,或许是内在性格使然、或许是沟通技巧欠缺,他们把对别人说的话、要表达的想法都留给了自己,表面上看他们是枯燥、羞涩甚至怪癖的人,而一旦我们走进他们的内心,就会惊讶的发现,其实他们是很有趣的人、有自己丰富的世界。《深夜小狗神秘事件》就...
评分这本书其实几年前就看过,那时是很大的开本,书被借走后就再没出现。新书一到,立马入手,精致的小开本拿在手,又是一气读完。我知道老版本的读者中很多把这本书当成了悬疑故事而对其多有恶评。这多少可惜了这本书。其实,神秘的不是小狗,孩子的内心,比一切悬疑故事更...
评分看到这本名字怪怪的书,心中一凛. 章节从2开始,然后是3,然后是5、7、11…… 慢慢才明白,不是章节数错了,都是质数。 记得前时读过的一本书,说到质数,说到彼此孤独的质数。 心中倏忽一动,如潮涌过…… 留心世界的人,处处都有江山。 这句话从某一个哀伤的故事里读来...
仿佛心里最不愿意近人情的一部分因为能够被叙述出来而得到了安慰,而另一些还愿意近人情的部分则感到自己应该更具同理心一点
评分情节文字皆平淡,天才白痴少年的视角。朗读不错,但不喜对父母的朗读,读得恶狠狠,听得心惊肉跳,所幸篇幅少。
评分原本期待是略eccentric的小说而已。看到后来超预期了!从自闭症孩子的视角来写life's shit很特别(并不是说这孩子是他父母的负担)。4.5星,半星扣在有些地方略有“卖宅”的嫌疑。
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