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Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
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The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.
Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily.
Haddon makes an intelligent stab at how it feels to, for example, not know how to read the faces of the people around you, to be perpetually spooked by certain colours and certain levels of noise, to hate being touched to the point of violent reaction. Life is difficult for the difficult and prickly Christopher in ways that he only partly understands; this avoids most of the obvious pitfalls of novels about disability because it demands that we respect--perhaps admire--him rather than pity him. --Roz Kaveney
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"Wondrous...brilliantly inventive...dazzling. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best" (The Times)
"Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving" (Sunday Telegraph)
"Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read" (Independent)
"Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant" (Guardian)
"A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read" (Time Out)
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- PublisherDavid Fickling Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0385605870
- ISBN 13 9780385605878
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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