The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Mark Haddon

页数:240

出版时间:18 May, 2004

价格:USD 14.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781400032716

图书标签:小说英文原版英国MarkHaddon自闭症外国文学fictionEnglish

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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.

读后感

差点因为“荣获英国《卫报》最佳儿童小说奖”这句话而错过这样一本触及心灵的佳作，这是我读完《深夜小狗神秘事件》后的第一个想法。实际上，这并不是一本单纯的童书，成年人从书中似乎能收获到更多的感悟。 少年克里斯托弗下决心写一本书，内容是对门希尔斯太太家小狗威灵顿...

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关于自闭症儿童的故事

前半部分还没有什么特别的感触，对于这种写作风格，在看阿尔吉侬的花束时也已经接触过了，所以感觉不到什么惊艳。真正触动我的是写到主角来到伦敦，爸爸跟着找过来和妈妈吵架，大声质问说你给他写信？写信又算得了什么？我给他做饭，我被叫到学校去，我给他换衣服，你做了什么？你就写写信？看到这一刻忽然意识到，在主角的视角之外，成年人到底过着什么样的生活。太苦了，就算是最后一切都在向好的方向发展，还是太苦了，这种和向往更好的生活纠缠在一起不可分离的苦，看得大哭

前半部分还没有什么特别的感触，对于这种写作风格，在看阿尔吉侬的花束时也已经接触过了，所以感觉不到什么惊艳。真正触动我的是写到主角来到伦敦，爸爸跟着找过来和妈妈吵架，大声质问说你给他写信？写信又算得了什么？我给他做饭，我被叫到学校去，我给他换衣服，你做了什么？你就写写信？看到这一刻忽然意识到，在主角的视角之外，成年人到底过着什么样的生活。太苦了，就算是最后一切都在向好的方向发展，还是太苦了，这种和向往更好的生活纠缠在一起不可分离的苦，看得大哭

读完英文版感觉不会再爱了 ENGL老师太过分了T.T

后来就不好看了。。// 啊啊啊好棒！停不下来了。。// 据说是很有意思的一本书 // 130722 香港书展