Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.
Mark Haddon's 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 child's 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 neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's 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.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
爱的教育三部曲之《深夜小狗神秘事件》 《深夜小狗神秘事件》是一本蛮独特的书。 它的独特不仅仅在于故事内容,也不仅仅由于讲述视角,它的独特之处在于处处都很独特,而且最后会让人觉得,它的独特理所当然顺理成章。 它的故事内容是独特的,讲述一个有自闭症的孩子如何破...
评分如果克里斯托弗是个在我身边真实存在的孩子,我想我也会像他母亲那样无奈,甚至讨厌他。一个自闭症男孩往往是什么都不解释的,只有当他用自己的语言坦白的解释一切时,读者才可以按照他的逻辑去理解他。读的过程中我时常把他的行为和理论拆解开来,撇去理论,所剩下的行为就可...
评分这是本很薄的、很特别的小说,是位年轻的英国人写的。小说的主要框架是一个15岁的小男孩有一天晚上发现邻居家的狗被谋杀了,整部书就是写这个小男孩如何探案的以及他的生活。 这个男孩叫christopher,他能说出7057之前的所有质数,知道世界上所有国家及其首都的名字。但是他看...
评分这本书,如果尚有可取之处,应该是作者老老实实地在用孩子的视角看世界。更显殊为不易的是,用一个自闭症少年数学天才的视角。 成人总是自以为是地为孩子“解说”世界,用自己喜欢的方式“掩饰”真相,有时甚至滥用权威。 慢慢地看,也许会有一些地方让人记起童年某个“神秘...
评分差点因为“荣获英国《卫报》最佳儿童小说奖”这句话而错过这样一本触及心灵的佳作,这是我读完《深夜小狗神秘事件》后的第一个想法。实际上,这并不是一本单纯的童书,成年人从书中似乎能收获到更多的感悟。 少年克里斯托弗下决心写一本书,内容是对门希尔斯太太家小狗威灵顿...
good, interesting
评分一开始很喜欢 Christopher, 之后很喜欢爸爸。 "if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible"
评分前半部分还没有什么特别的感触,对于这种写作风格,在看阿尔吉侬的花束时也已经接触过了,所以感觉不到什么惊艳。真正触动我的是写到主角来到伦敦,爸爸跟着找过来和妈妈吵架,大声质问说你给他写信?写信又算得了什么?我给他做饭,我被叫到学校去,我给他换衣服,你做了什么?你就写写信?看到这一刻忽然意识到,在主角的视角之外,成年人到底过着什么样的生活。太苦了,就算是最后一切都在向好的方向发展,还是太苦了,这种和向往更好的生活纠缠在一起不可分离的苦,看得大哭
评分孤独的人并不可耻
评分关于自闭症儿童的故事
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