The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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

具体描述

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.

作者简介

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.

读后感

这本书，如果尚有可取之处，应该是作者老老实实地在用孩子的视角看世界。更显殊为不易的是，用一个自闭症少年数学天才的视角。 成人总是自以为是地为孩子“解说”世界，用自己喜欢的方式“掩饰”真相，有时甚至滥用权威。 慢慢地看，也许会有一些地方让人记起童年某个“神秘...  

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...

这是一本关于孩子的书，但这并不意味着这就是童书；这是一个有些许神秘的故事，但也算不上推理悬疑小说。这是一个天才少年眼里的世界，在他与众不同的视角与思维方式里，让我们看到了一个不一样的成人世界。 每个故事都会有一个导火线，这个故事起源于邻居家小狗的突然死亡，...  

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...

这是本有点奇特的书，因为书中的男孩子是个天才型智障。数学好得出奇，脑袋里成天都是数字和图形游戏。 但是怕人多，容易紧张，受刺激了会大叫（有点像雨人） 而且怪癖不少，讨厌黄色，喜欢红色，恪守生活规律，要是规律被打破了就受不了（也像雨人呢，呵呵）。 邻居家的狗被插...  

用户评价

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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

读到最后有点难过，自闭症儿童最让人难过的是他们的缺乏感情，这扇门该如何打开？

一个亚斯伯格综合症患者的独白，从患者视角出发的语言文本，这本书里一切修辞手法都是非metaphor而是simile的；在慢慢了解这类症候群患者的同时，也觉得最难过的其实是身边人，父亲的角色最令人心碎——无法感知的痛苦和无法沟通的绝望，儿子做过最美的梦却是世上所有的人都因中电脑病毒死光，独自享有整个世界。

说想看自闭症儿童的第一人称作品，然后被推荐了这本，前一半真的很喜欢，看完后反而不知道了