by Mark Haddon · Definitions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099456766
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«The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time» is Mark Haddon's mystery novel, published by Definitions in paperback (279 pages, in English).
Christopher, a fifteen-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, has a photographic memory, loves mathematics and Sherlock Holmes, but finds it hard to understand people. When he finds his neighbor's dog dead, he decides to investigate the case and narrate it as a detective novel; his inquiries end up uncovering secrets that affect his family.
The cover states it won the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize; children's edition in English published in 2004.
For young and adult readers; common in book clubs and schools, with a mystery narrated from the perspective of a boy with Asperger's.
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
