The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel (Costa Novel Award)

Mark Haddon

may 2004 · Distribuido por Vintage

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world.

“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.... Suspenseful and harrowing.” —The New York Times Book Review

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

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My best friend has autism and he's kind of like Christopher. He is very smart and very shy and very curious and also very brave. I cried sometimes. Sometimes things got very real for me with the novel. This was so special and respectful. It does brings honor to the people with the disorder. It actually explains very cleverly the beauty and complexity of their minds.

El autor asume una perspectiva audaz y muy peculiar. Muy entretenido. Lo terminé en sólo 2 dias porque no podía parar de leer

A very entertaining book because it makes you enter to the mind of the character, it helps you understand, interpret, comprehend and learn how a person with autism sees the world around them in such a pleasant way that you cannot stop reading, totally recommended for a person who is learning English and wants a text that has a fluid and clear reading style.

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MARK HADDON is the author of the bestselling novels The Red House and A Spot of Bother. His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and is the basis for the Tony Award–winning play. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, has written and illustrated numerous children’s books, and has won awards for both his radio dramas and his television screenplays. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England.