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"Imagínate que tu vida, por fin, comienza a encajar, todo está en su sitio y sientes que brillas. Pero sin saber cómo ni por qué, alguien decide joderte. A ti. Sí, a ti. Y tú, en vez de quedarte qui

Mark Haddons bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their childs quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbors poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellingtons owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.

One of the most keenly awaited books of the year: the new novel from Mark Haddon. "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night- Time" won no fewer than 17 literary prizes, including the Whitbread, and has sold in copious quantities in all its editions. "A Spot Of Bother" begins with George Hall, a retired man in his sixties, finding a mark on his hip, which he is convinced is skin cancer. His increasingly odd behaviour is a worry to his family, but they have their own concerns to deal with. Part family-farce, part clear-eyed presentation of mental illness, part novel of manners, all written in Mark Haddon''s unique and affecting style.

That Mark Haddon's first book after "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" was a poetry collection perhaps came as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is a collection of such virtuosity and range did not. The gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here too - the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism - but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention, and "The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea" combines bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on "18" certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages. Consolidating Haddon's reputation as our most powerful myth-weavers and spell-makers, "The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea" also confirms him as one of the most outrageous and freewheeling imaginations at work in contemporary literature.

At 57, George Hall is settling down to a retirement. Then Katie, his daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her brother Jamie observes that Ray has stranglers hands. This book features a portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. It also talks about the people who fall apart and come together as a family.

George Hall doesnt understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely. Some things in life, however, cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has stranglers hands. Katie cant decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husbands former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart and come together as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddons disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche es una novela que se parece a ninguna otra. Elegiada con entusiaso por autores consagrados como Oliver Sacks e Ian McEwan, ha merecido la aprobación masiva de los lectores en todos los paises donde se ha publicado, ademas de galardones como el Premio Whtibread y el Premio de la Commonwealth al Mejor Primer Libro.Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los mas originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los ultimos años, y esta destinado a convertirse en un heroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christhoper Boone, conoce las capitales de todos los paises del mundo, puede explicar la teoria de la relatividad y recitar los numeros 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 marron y el contacto fisico. Si bien nunca ha ido solo mas alla de la tienda de la esquina, la noche que el perro de la vecina aparece atravesado por un horcon, Christopher decide iniciar la busqueda del culpable.

Christopher è un quindicenne colpito dal morbo di Asperger, una forma di autismo. Ha una mente straordinariamente allenata alla matematica ma assolutamente non avvezza ai rapporti umani: odia il giallo, il marrone e l'essere sfiorato. Ama gli schemi, gli elenchi e la deduzione logica. Non è mai andato più in là del negozio dietro l'angolo, ma quando scopre il cane della vicina trafitto da un forcone capisce di trovarsi di fronte a uno di quei misteri che il suo eroe, Sherlock Holmes, era così bravo a risolvere. Inizia così a indagare...

'Like plumbers and dentists, poets are fallible, and the possibility of genuine nonsense cannot be ruled out.' Well, Mark Haddon, you said it. The title - prolix, pretentious, shapeless (Haddon is a specialist in long titles - the bestselling Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes from his pen - is presumably intended to prefigure the collection itself and so serve by way of health warning. If so, it misses the mark, as nothing could prepare us for the tendentiousness, the unjustified formlessness, the ghastliness, of Haddon's verse.

El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche es una novela que se parece a ninguna otra. Elegiada con entusiaso por autores consagrados como Oliver Sacks e Ian McEwan, ha merecido la aprobación masiva de los lectores en todos los paises donde se ha publicado, ademas de galardones como el Premio Whtibread y el Premio de la Commonwealth al Mejor Primer Libro.Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los mas originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los ultimos años, y esta destinado a convertirse en un heroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christhoper Boone, conoce las capitales de todos los paises del mundo, puede explicar la teoria de la relatividad y recitar los numeros 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 marron y el contacto fisico. Si bien nunca ha ido solo mas alla de la tienda de la esquina, la noche que el perro de la vecina aparece atravesado por un horcon, Christopher decide iniciar la busqueda del culpable.

n expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.A seaside pier collapses.A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean.Another woman is saved from drowning.Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox.A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle.A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.

A marvel of a collection Kaliane Bradley author of The Ministry of Time There is nothing more terrifying than the monster that squats behind the door you dare not open From the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time come eight mesmerising stories exploring care genetics how we treat animals and how we treat other people Mark Haddon weaves ancient fables into fresh and unexpected forms and forges new legends to sit alongside them The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love and of the monstrosities of patriarchy The lover of a goddess Tithonus is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth Actaeon changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks Whether describing Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit or St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert his astonishing powers of observation are at their height when illuminating the thin line between human and animal In sentences as precisely

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An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.