书名：The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 深夜小狗神秘事件

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1090L

作者：Mark Haddon马克·哈登

出版社名称：Vintage

出版时间：2004

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780099470434

商品尺寸：11 x 1.8 x 17.8 cm

包装：简装

页数：224 （以实物为准）

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time《深夜小狗神秘事件》像《小王子》一样，用质朴的语言讲述深邃的洞见，是你人生每个阶段都会读到不同感受的好作品。小说表面上是少年阿弗充满了奇思妙想的脑洞世界，内核却是关于我们如何看待世界，如何与他人、与自己相处这一永恒课题。 小说已译为38种文字，全球销量超2000万册，与《哈利·波特》《达芬奇密码》并称欧美十年畅销三甲。 获奖记录： ★大英图书奖、惠特布莱德奖获奖作品，入选《卫报》“一生必读的100本书” ★荣登英国、美国、德国、意大利、荷兰、加拿大、日本等多国畅销榜 ★改编同名舞台剧获戏剧至高奖项“托尼奖”六项大奖，从美国到欧洲，一票难求 ★《卫报》zui佳儿童小说奖 ★W.H.史密斯年度zui佳童书奖 ★英国图书信托基金会青少年作品奖 ★美国国家青少年图书馆服务协会亚历克斯奖 ★多利·格雷儿童文学奖 ★意大利薄伽丘奖 ★日本产经儿童出版文化赏大奖 名人推荐： “《深夜小狗神秘事件》和《指环王》等经典作品一样，是孩子长大后还会去重读的书，只是那时他们看到的已然是另外一部完全不同作品。”——萨尔曼·拉什迪 “马克·哈登极其成功地描绘了一个情感游离的精神世界。他拥有罕见的使人共鸣的天赋，睿智且幽默感十足。”——伊恩·麦克尤恩 “我从没读过哪部作品能像马克·哈登的这部一样，有趣而又诚实得让人痛苦，也从没见过有哪个叙述者能比他说得更生动又叫人印象深刻。建议你买两本，否则你舍不得出借。”——阿瑟·高顿 “行文美妙，细致微妙的描写，引人入胜的故事，我都等不及翻开下一页。”——安·泰勒（普利策奖得主） 媒体推荐： “马克·哈登选择了阿弗作为本书的陈述者，将他逻辑化而又不乏想象力的观点娓娓来，写出了一个极富特色的小说，同时也成就了一种“极简主义”叙述。”——《纽约时报》 “这是一部精彩独特的绝美之作。充满了令人称奇的片段。是近年来zui别具一格、zui让人称道的小说。”——《泰晤士报》 “小说里满是感人却又讥诮的幽默。一本以独特而引人注目的文学语调写就的作品，令人大开眼界。”——《出版家周刊》 “马克·哈登的小说让伊恩·麦克尤恩及奥利弗·萨克斯交口称赞……这一次，权威们说了实话。”——《经济学家》 “这本书让人产生一种罕有的贪念：你极想一气呵成地看完它，却又舍不得这样的阅读体验结束地太快。哈登成功地展现了一种非同寻常的东西。”——《观察家报》 “不禁让人想起《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》《麦田守望者》以及《大卫·科波菲尔》。”——《休斯顿纪事报》 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger’s, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. 

阿弗，有着惊人的记忆力和超群的数学天赋。他知道世界上所有国家及其首都的名称，知道7507以内的所有质数，梦想是成为宇航员。他习惯生活在自己的小小世界，不爱跟人说话，对他来说，解决复杂的数学题很容易，理解他人的想法却很难。 一个深夜，他发现邻家小狗威灵死在了草坪上，他心疼地将它抱起，却被主人误认为是凶手。阿弗决定独自侦破这起谋杀案，并将探案的过程写成一本书。 The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher’s condition is not stated, the book’s blurb refers to Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome. In July 2009, Haddon wrote on his blog that “Curious Incident is not a book about Asperger’s... if anything it’s a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder,” and that he, Haddon, is not an expert on autism spectrum disorder or Asperger syndrome.

马克·哈登（Mark Haddon），英国作家、插画家、漫画家及剧作家。1962年生于英国中部名城北安普顿，1981年毕业于牛津大学，之后在爱丁堡大学获得英语文学硕士学位。2003年，长篇小说处女作《深夜小狗神秘事件》出版，凭借作品本身的魅力，于2004年圣诞前夜，超越《哈利·波特》，登上英国畅销书排行榜，并获英国“惠特布莱德年度图书”“大英图书奖年度童书”“《卫报》十佳儿童小说奖”等三十多项文学大奖。 迄今，马克·哈登已著有二十多部作品，囊括了英联邦诸多重要文学大奖，加上在编剧与美术方面的深厚造诣，被众多读者和媒体称为“罕见的全能鬼才”。 Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known forThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work.

It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears’s house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this. I went through Mrs. Shears’s gate, closing it behind me. I walked onto her lawn and knelt beside the dog. I put my hand on the muzzle of the dog. It was still warm. The dog was called Wellington. It belonged to Mrs. Shears, who was our friend. She lived on the opposite side of the road, two houses to the left. Wellington was a poodle. Not one of the small poodles that have hairstyles but a big poodle. It had curly black fur, but when you got close you could see that the skin underneath the fur was a very pale yellow, like chicken. I stroked Wellington and wondered who had killed him, and why.                                        3 My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.  Eight years ago, when I first met Siobhan, she showed me this picture [sad face] and I knew that it meant ‘sad,’ which is what I felt when I found the dead dog.  Then she showed me this picture [smiley face] and I knew that it meant “happy”, like when I’m reading about the Apollo space missions, or when I am still awake at 3 am or 4 am in the morning and I can walk up and down the street and pretend that I am the only person in the whole world.  Then she drew some other pictures [various happy, sad, confused, surprised faces] but I was unable to say what these meant.  I got Siobhan to draw lots of these faces and then write down next to them exactly what they meant. I kept the piece the piece of paper in my pocket and took it out when I didn’t understand what someone was saying. But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people’s faces move very quickly. When I told Siobhan that I was doing this, she got out a pencil and another piece of paper and said it probably made people feel very [confused face] and then she laughed. So I tore the original piece of paper up and threw it away. And Siobhan apologised. And now if I don’t know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.