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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The classic Sunday Times bestseller

Author: Mark Haddon   Series: Vintage Books

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A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy.

OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.

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A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy.

OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other.

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'Wondrous - brilliantly inventive, full of dazzling set pieces. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best' The TimesOVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLDThe 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 McEwanWinner of the Whitbread Book of the YearONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY

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Awards

Winner of Booktrust Teenage Prize 2003
Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Novel) 2003
Short-listed for Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2003

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Critic Reviews

“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
A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster. Carrie Grant, Sunday Express
Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book Scotsman
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. Daily Telegraph
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 -- Ian McEwan
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 Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'

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About the Author

Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. In 2012, a stage adaptation by Simon Stephens was produced by the National Theatre and went on to win 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2005 his poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador, and his play, Polar Bears, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse in 2010. His most recent novel, The Red House, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2012. The Pier Falls, a collection of short stories, was also published by Cape in 2016. To commemorate the centenary of the Hogarth Press he wrote and illustrated a short story that appeared alongside Virginia Woolf's first story for the press in Two Stories (Hogarth, 2017).

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage
Published
1st April 2004
Pages
288
ISBN
9780099450252

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