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Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte (original 2003; edition 2014)

by Mark Haddon (Autore), Mark Haddon (Prefazione), Paola Novarese (Traduttore)

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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Title:Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte
Authors:Mark Haddon (Autore)
Other authors:Mark Haddon (Prefazione), Paola Novarese (Traduttore)
Info:Einaudi (2014), Edition: 1, 248 pages
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

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When young Christopher Boone finds a neighbour’s dog dead he decides to turn himself into a detective to solve this crime and also sets about writing a novel documenting his progress. Along the way Christopher reveals much about himself, his autism, and about his parents’ struggles in raising him. Christopher is a likeable and logical character and I found many of his matter-of-fact assessments about his life and people’s responses very poignant.

As a dog lover I found the dead dog and the solution to this mystery rather unpalatable but I did enjoy the exploration of Christopher and his life enjoyable. ( )
  mimbza | Jun 10, 2024 |
A fascinating and poignant tale, told entirely from the point of view of an autistic boy. ( )
  JackieCraven | May 23, 2024 |
This was a difficult book to read, considering I have a high-functioning autistic brother in law. I didn't know him as a youth, but I hear stories and I deal with how his family deals with him. He's nothing at all like Christopher (anyone who thinks that Christopher is high functioning has a very skewed definition of high functioning) in that he can deal with things better though he'll never deal with some things in a normal way... But it really hit home with me for this reason.

I can't say I enjoyed being in Christopher's brain very much, either. It was a cramped place, that brain, with a rigid way of thinking that he cannot break free from. But it was a certainly unique perspective and for that Mark Haddon should be lauded. The voice and narrative are completely unique, and you think you're going to get one story but really, you're going to get another.

A good book. Sad, but good. ( )
  crowsandprose | May 15, 2024 |
I read this several years ago but it made a lasting impression on me in its depiction of an autistic boy, and the manifestations of the disease, as well as being a cracker jack tale. ( )
  featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |
"El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche es una novela que no se parece a ninguna otra. Elogiada con entusiasmo por autores consagrados como Oliver Sacks e Ian McEwan, ha merecido la aprobación masiva de los lectores en todos los países donde se ha publicado, además de galardones como el Premio Whitbread y el Premio de la Commonwealth al Mejor Primer Libro. Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los más originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los últimos años, y está destinado a convertirse en un héroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christopher conoce las capitales de todos los países del mundo, puede explicar la teoría de la relatividad y recitar los números primos hasta el 7.507, pero le cuesta relacionarse con otros seres humanos. Le gustan las listas, los esquemas y la verdad, pero odia el amarillo, el marrón y el contacto físico. Si bien nunca ha ido solo más allá de la tienda de la esquina, la noche que el perro de una vecina aparece atravesado por un horcón, Christopher decide iniciar la búsqueda del culpable. Emulando a su admirado Sherlock Holmes -el modelo de detective obsesionado con el análisis de los hechos-, sus pesquisas lo llevarán a cuestionar el sentido común de los adultos que lo rodean y a desvelar algunos secretos familiares que pondrán patas arriba su ordenado y seguro mundo": (Descripción editorial).
  Perroteca__ | May 5, 2024 |
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Mark Haddon specialises in innovative storylines in his work as an author, screenwriter and illustrator allied to his remarkable ability to demonstrate what it is to be autistic without sentimentality or exaggeration allied to a creative use of puzzles, facts and photographs in the text mark him out as a real talent drawing on a range of abilities.
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As Christopher investigates Wellington's death, he makes some remarkably brave decisions and when he eventually faces his fears and moves beyond his immediate neighborhood, the magnitude of his challenge and the joy in his achievement are overwhelming. Haddon creates a fascinating main character and allows the reader to share in his world, experiencing his ups and downs and his trials and successes. In providing a vivid world in which the reader participates vicariously, Haddon fulfills the most important requirements of fiction, entertaining at the same time that he broadens the reader's perspective and allows him to gain knowledge. This fascinating book should attract legions of enthusiastic readers.
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The imaginative leap of writing a novel -- the genre that began as an exercise in sentiment -- without overt emotion is a daring one, and Haddon pulls it off beautifully. Christopher's story is full of paradoxes: naive yet knowing, detached but poignant, often wryly funny despite his absolute humorlessness.
added by stephmo | editSan Francisco Chronicle, Kate Washington (Jun 22, 2003)
 
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.
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Mark Haddon's stark, funny and original first novel, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,'' is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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2003-07-31
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Christopher John Francis Boone
Ed Boone
Roger Shears
Mrs. Shears
Mrs. Alexander
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Swindon, England, UK
London, England, UK
England, UK
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This book is dedicated to Sos
With thanks to Kathryn Heyman, Clare Alexander, Kate Shaw and Dave Cohen
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It was 7 minutes after midnight.
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Wellington was a poodle. Not one of the small poodles that have hair styles but a big poodle.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
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McEwan, Ian
Sacks, Oliver
Goldberg, Myla
Golden, Arthur
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