Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/04/2004
ISBN: 9780099450252
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 250g
RRP: £8.99
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.
The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer
'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan
Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 01/04/2004
ISBN: 9780099450252
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 250g
RRP: £8.99
Wondrous...brilliantly inventive...dazzling. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best
Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving
Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read
Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant
A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read
A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.
Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out