Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year 'Outstanding...a stunningly good read' Observer 'Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement... Wise and bleakly funny' Ian McEwan 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 Syndrome. 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.
Qui a tué Wellington, le grand caniche noir de Mme Shears, la voisine ? Christopher Boone, quinze ans, trois mois et deux jours , décide de mener l'enquête. Christopher aime les listes, les plans, la vérité. Il comprend les mathématiques et la théorie de la relativité. Mais Christopher ne s'est jamais aventuré plus loin que le bout de la rue. Il ne supporte pas qu'on le touche, et trouve les autres êtres humains... déconcertants.
Quand son père lui demande d'arrêter ses investigations, Christopher refuse d'obéir. Au risque de bouleverser le délicat équilibre de l'univers qu'il s'est construit...
Drôle et insolite. Guillaume Chérel - Le Point Mark Haddon signe un joli et attachant roman sur la différence. Tifenn Duchatelle - ELLE Ce premier roman a remporté le prix Whitebread du meilleur livre de l'année 2003.
From the bestselling author of The Porpoise come eight mesmerising stories moving between Greek myth and the near future to explore what, ultimately, makes us human
Weaving together Ancient Greek fables with more recent dystopian narratives, Mark Haddon jump starts the heart of these legends told and retold for millennia, and demonstrates their lasting relevance again, in new and unexpected forms.
The lover of a goddess, Tithonus is gifted eternal life, but without eternal youth he must stare into a future of endless old age. The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child - and of the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. 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, from fear of the future to the cruel world of the English boarding school, Haddon showcases masterfully 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.
Il était une fois, dans l'Angleterre du XXIe siècle, un homme qui, rendu fou de douleur par la mort de son épouse, tomba éperdument amoureux de leur fille.
Il était une fois une jeune fille qui rêvait du prince charmant qui viendrait l'arracher à l'emprise délétère de son père. Il était une fois un jeune homme obligé de fuir pour échapper à la fureur meurtrière du père incestueux.
C'est alors que les époques se télescopent, que le présent bascule dans le passé, que l'Angleterre actuelle s'efface devant la Grèce antique et que la réalité rejoint le mythe.
En s'inspirant très librement de la pièce Périclès, prince de Tyr de Shakespeare, Mark Haddon nous offre un roman d'aventures ambitieux porté par des personnages inoubliables et déchirants.
A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel`A superb achievement. 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.
En froid avec sa soeur Angela depuis des années, Richard décide d'enterrer la hache de guerre, et l'invite à passer des vacances en compagnie de sa famille. L'intention est belle, mais la cohabitation s'annonce plus que délicate : quatre adultes qui ruminent de vieux griefs, trois ados et un enfant qui se connaissent à peine, coincés sous le même toit pendant une semaine au fin fond de la campagne galloise, où la pluie ne s'arrête jamais et où les téléphones ne passent pas... Cela risque de faire quelques étincelles...
Just downright brilliant... a transcendent, transporting experience' Observer A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.
When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears.
A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore.
Pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
'A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery' Max Porter
A bestselling modern classic--both poignant and funny--about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world. Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
Vous prévoyez d'annoncer votre mariage à votre famille ? un conseil : ne faites pas comme katie ! choisissez bien votre moment et faites preuve de diplomatie.
Surtout si l'heureux élu est une brute épaisse dotée d'un pois chiche à la place du cerveau. présentez les choses avec tact et délicatesse. tout particulièrement si votre famille cache, derrière les apparences de la plus tranquille bourgeoisie londonienne, quelques prédispositions au dérapage collectif... il faut dire que pour katie, entre un père hypocondriaque, une mère volage, un frère homosexuel qui n'assume pas son orientation, sans compter son propre caractère de cochon, la situation a de quoi devenir...
Légèrement délicate !
Boom! Is a roller-coaster read with spaceships, spies and mortal danger!
Jim and his best friend Charlie weren't looking for adventure, when they decided to bug the staffroom . . . But then they overhear their teachers speaking in a secret language and it's too late to turn back. And now they have to explain to the police, the headmistress and their parents where they've been for a whole week - without mentioning the aliens.
Full title: 'The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea'. In Mark Haddon's first book of poetry, his immense talent for storytelling and his unbridled imagination combine to produce a collection that is at once bold, heartwarming, bittersweet and immensely accessible.
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'.
From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 'Superbly gripping' Sunday Times 'Terrifically compelling' Guardian 'A brilliant collection' Daily Mail 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.
'The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives.' Sunday Times
