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'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.

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.

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 países donde se ha publicado, además de galardones como el Premio Whtibread 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, Christhoper Boone, 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 la vecina aparece atravesado por un horcón, Christopher decide iniciar la búsqueda del culpable.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Un homenaje a la maravillosa e infinita capacidad de reelaboración de mitos y leyendas, por el autor de El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche.En El delfín, Mark Haddon ha elaborado una recreacion contemporanea de una de las tragedias menos conocidas de Shakespeare, Pericles, principe de Tiro, version a su vez de la leyenda de Apolonio de Tiro. El relato clasico narra la huida del heroe, perseguido por el rey Antioco, tras haber revelado la relacion incestuosa del rey y su hija. Con una prosa elegante y descriptiva, Haddon traslada esta historia mitologica al presente para reflexionar sobre las relaciones paternofiliales y el papel de la mujer en la sociedad actual. Un libro fascinante, de lectura deliciosa, que nos sumerge en un mundo de leyendas y mitologia, con historias que se abren dentro de otras historias, engarzadas por una maraña de referencias perfectamente tejidas por la pluma del autor.

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George Hall doesn't 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 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't 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 husband's 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 Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

Elogiada amb entusiasme per Oliver Sacks -"brillant"- i Ian McEwan -"superba"-, El curiós incident del gos a mitjanit es una novel"la que no s'assembla a cap altra. El narrador, Christopher Boone, te quinze anys i pateix una forma lleu d'autisme. Sap molt de matematiques i poc sobre els essers humans. Li agraden les llistes, els sistemes, la veritat& Odia el groc, el marro i que el toquin. Mai ha anat sol mes enlla de la botiga de la cantonada, pero quan descobreix que algu ha matat el gos d'una vena, decideix iniciar una investigacio. Lluny de fracassar, la recerca de Christopher, que emula el seu admirat Sherlock Holmes-el model de detectiu obsessionat amb el distanciament i l'analisi dels fets-, questionara ben aviat el sentit comu i el comportament dels adults que l'envolten.

Del autor deEl curioso incidente del perro a medianoche,una novela para niños en la queluce de nuevo su personalísima imaginación, cargada de sentido del humor y geniales detalles de fantasíadesbordante.De pura casualidad, Jim y su mejor amigo Charlie descubren que dos profesores de su instituto se comunican en un incomprensible idioma secreto. Presas de la curiosidad, se confabulan para desentrañar un misterio que, dia tras dia, se vuelve mas inquietante.¿Que significan palabras comospudvetch osnekkit? ¿Quienes son los Centinelas? ¿Y por que, de repente, los ojos del profesor Kidd destellan con una fluorescencia azul? ¿No sera que el señor Kidd y la señora Pearce, con su extraño lenguaje codificado, son asaltantes de bancos, espias de una potencia enemiga, o incluso alienigenas que preparan una invasion de la Tierra?En su afan de hallar la respuesta a todo este enigma, ambos amigos acaban viajando al espacio infinito, donde viviran la aventura mas emocionante y peligrosa que nadie habria podido imaginar.Reseñas:Una aventura divertida y trepidante.TheBookbagUna extraordinaria aventura cuya intensidad no decae en ningun momento.TheIrishExaminerExcelente diversion para los lectores jovenes.TheDaily MailUna alocada aventura, vertiginosa y completamente increible, aunque nadie dudara de una sola palabra.PublishersWeeklyUna aventura desternillante.TheBooksellerDen un ejemplar de este libro a todos los niños de entre 7 y 11 años. ¡Mas, por favor!TheSchoolLibrarian

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Christopher Boone ten quince anos, é un experto en ciencias e matemáticas, sabe as capitais de todos os países do mundo e os números primos ata o 7.507, pero ten dificultades para relacionarse con outras persoas. Unha noite atopa a Wellington, o can da veciña, atravesado por unha forca de xardin, e decide comezar unha investigacion para descubrir o asasino. Mentres leva a cabo as suas pescudas, que converte nunha novela policial, cuestionara a loxica do mundo que o rodea e desvelara certos misterios que van alterar a sua vida metodica e ordenada