书名：The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time  深夜小狗神秘事件
作者：Mark Haddon
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2004
语种：英文
ISBN：9781400077830
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.4 x17 cm  
包装：平装
页数：226（以实物为准）

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time《深夜小狗神秘事件》是一本涉及谋杀案的侦探小说——只是侦探、凶手、受害者、真相，以及所有的一切都出乎人意料之外。一经出版荣获多项奖项，共译作35种文字160余个版本，畅销全球近2000万册，荣登英国、法、美、德、意、西班牙、巴西等多国畅销榜。本书适合对儿童文学、侦探推理类小说的书迷朋友阅读。
推荐理由：
1.书中以患有自闭症的数学天才——克里斯多弗为主角，向我们展现一个孩子眼中真正的世界，文学巨匠拉什迪、麦克尤恩倾情推荐；
2.英国唯独一部将热销的《哈利波特》挤下畅销榜首位的书；
3.荣获大英图书奖童书奖、英国《卫报》儿童小说奖、美国多利·格雷儿童文学奖以及美国《洛杉矶时报》“年度最佳处女作小说大奖”等诸多奖项；
4.成为英国、澳大利亚等多个国家的中学教材，并入选英国《卫报》“一生必读的100本书”；
5.英文原版，无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平。
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 mystery novel by British writer Mark Haddon. Its title quotes the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1892 short story “Silver Blaze”. Haddon andThe Curious Incident won the Whitbread Book Awards for Best Novel and Book of the Year, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and theGuardian Children’s Fiction Prize. As a writer for The Guardian remarked, “Unusually, it was published simultaneously in separate editions for adults and children.”

克里斯多弗，十五岁，患有自闭症的数学天才。他原本孤独而安全的世界一夕之间被一桩命案改变：深夜里，隔壁邻居家的小狗被铁叉刺死。克里斯多弗决定自己来当侦探，然后将调查结果写成一本书。神经质的文字，异质的书写，少年克里斯多弗诚实到让人不安。他意图解开谋杀案，却意外发现自己家里隐藏的真相。克里斯多弗令人好心疼，只是他的心灵就像他最想去的外太空，遥远，难以触及。
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·海登，作家、插图家与剧作家，著有15本童书，并曾两度荣获英国电视艺术学院（BAFTA）颁奖。第一本小说《深夜小狗神秘事件》，2003年一出版便获得”惠布瑞特年度最佳好书奖”（Whitbread Book of the Year Award）以及”卫报奖”。2004年圣诞节登上畅销书排行榜冠军宝座，这是七年来《哈利波特》首次位居第二。
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.