Some comments on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ..This is not a book about Aspergers... if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder. Mark Haddon 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 A murder mystery, a road atlas, a postmodern canvas of modern sensory overload, a coming-of-age journal and a really affecting look at the grainy inconsistency of parental and romantic love and its failures... In this striking first novel, Mark Haddon is both clever and observant, and the effect is vastly affecting. The Washington Post Haddon’s book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so humanely, that it reads like both an acutely observed case study and an artful exploration of a different ‘mystery’: the thoughts and feelings we share even with those very different from us. Entertainment Weekly .
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THE WRITER Mark Haddon was born in Northampton, England, in 1962. After leaving school, he did a number of different jobs, including one working with children who had physical and mental disabilities, such as autism, He graduated from Merton College, Oxford, in 1981, and later returned to his studies at Edinburgh University, where he received a Master’s degree in English Literature. He then worked as a painter, illustrator and cartoonist, contributing to a number of prominent British publications. In 1987, Haddon published his first children’s book, Gilbert’s Gobstopper, about a piece of candy that travels around the world for 50 years until it returns to Gilbert, the boy (now an old man) who originally dropped it,. He then published several more books for children, many of which he also illustrated, and became wellknown as a writer for children’s television. He won many awards for this, including the Royal Television Society’s award for Best Children’s Drama. In 2003, Haddon published his first work aimed at an adult audience: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. The novel was an immediate best seller in Great Britain and rapidly sold more than one million copies. Since then, it has been published in more than thirty-five countries and has become an international best seller. The book has won several major awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, a Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Book Trust Teenage Prize. Haddon has said that The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was the first book that he wrote
intentionally for an adult audience, and he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was adapted for the stage and was performed with great success at the London National Theatre in 2012. A film adaptation is currently being planned, with the involvement of Brad Pitt and Warner Brothers. Haddon’s published his second novel, A Spot of Bother in 2006 and his third novel, The Red House, in 2011.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME The novel is narrated in the first person by15-year-old Christopher who describes himself as "a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties.” Although his condition is not stated, it is generally understood that Christopher has Asperger’s or high-functioning autism. When a neighbour’s dog, is murdered, Christopher’s carefully constructed universe is threatened. He sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes, and to write a book about it. More mysteries emerge until Christopher begins to wonder if anything he's been told is true, especially regarding the relationship between his mother and his father. The style is chatty and the story interspersed with maths puzzles and science conundrums that Christopher solves as a means of calming himself down when events get out of control. The novel is funny, moving, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose mind perceives the world in a very different way from most
people.