Author: Mark Haddon
Translator: Eunyoung Yoo
Publisher: Munhaksucheop Littlebooks
Hardcover | 382 page | 195*138mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean only. |
About This Book
From Publishers Weekly
Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory
novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not
yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem,
other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive
"theory of mind" by which most of us sense what's going on in other people's
heads. When his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused
of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of
his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to
the secrets of his parents' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his
place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the
emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In
the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study
and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have
it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which
normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the
chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it
a Black Day, which is a day when I don't speak to anyone and sit on my own
reading books and don't eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). His literal-minded
observations make for a kind of poetic sensibility and a poignant evocation of
character. Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot
tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching,
ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling
literary voice.
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