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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- 256 pages ยท about 4 hours
- First published 2003
- 108 editions
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1 About this book
This is Christopher's murder mystery story. There are no lies in this story because Christopher can't tell lies. Christopher does not like strangers or the colours yellow or brown or being touched.
On the other hand, he knows all the countries in the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7507. When Christohper decides to find out who killed the neighbour's dog, his mystery story becomes more complicated than he could ever have predicted.
- Mystery
- Dogs
- Psychology
- Crime
- Young adult fiction
- Autism
- Patients
- Asperger's syndrome
2 What to expect
A novel narrated by a fifteen-year-old boy with a gift for mathematics and great difficulty with people, who sets out to investigate the death of a neighbor's dog. The mystery opens onto a family story, and the real subject is how he sees the world: literally, logically, and easily overwhelmed by noise and crowds. His voice is plain and exact, with diagrams, lists and prime-numbered chapters, and it is funny and painful by turns. It contains strong language.
Good for readers who want: an unusual narrator, a family story inside a mystery, and a quick, moving read.
3 About Mark Haddon
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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