Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

'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 Times

Beschreibung

Christopher liebt Primzahlen, Puzzles und Polizisten. Aber er hasst Gelb und Braun. Damit er auch Fleisch und Gemüse, das diese Farbtöne hat, essen kann, hat er immer Lebensmittelfarbe dabei. Seit seine Mutter vor zwei Jahren überraschend gestorben ist, vertraut er nur noch einem Menschen auf dieser Welt: seinem Vater, der ihn allein erzieht. Die beiden verstehen sich auch gut, bis Cristopher eines Nachts den Wellington, den Pudel der Nachbarin, tot im Garten findet. Der Junge mag Hunde sehr. Bei ihnen weiß er, woran er ist. Er muss unbedingt den Täter finden und nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Streng logisch, mit Deduktionen, wie einst Sherlock Holmes. Er kann nicht ahnen, wie sehr Wellingtons Tod mit seiner eigenen Geschichte zusammenhängt. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year

'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer

'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan

The 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.

Klappentext

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).