The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Paperback, 226 pages

English language

Published May 17, 2004 by Vintage Contemporaries.

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-3271-6
OCLC Number:: 55142139
Goodreads:: 1618

(2 reviews)

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

18 editions

Josh Daymude reviewed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

A Thoughtful and Instantly Lovable Perspective

4 stars

This is a story about the weirdness of the world as understood by Christopher John Francis Boone, a boy with autism who lives with his father in a small town in the UK. Christopher and his idiosyncrasies are instantly lovable. Through the eyes of a boy who thinks of everyone as different from himself, we’re reminded just how many common threads bind us all together.

Long version: jdaymude.github.io/review/book-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-nighttime/

henri

rated it

Aug. 9, 2006