"(...) When you look at the sky you are aware of looking at the stars that are far away hundreds and thousands of light years. Some of those stars no longer exist because their light It took so long to get to us now that have died, or went off and were broken in so many red dwarfs. Reflecting on these things makes me feel small, and if one has some difficulty in life is nice to think that these problems can be defined negligible, ie they are so insignificant as not to be taken into account during the calculation. (...)"
Mark Haddon, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night," Einaudi, 2003
Here is the plot, taken from www.internetbookshop.it : "When he discovers the corpse of Wellington, the neighbor's dog, the young Christopher Boone understands to be in front one of those mysteries that his hero, Sherlock Holmes, was so good to solve. And start writing a book, putting together the clues of the case from his point of view. A point of view a bit 'special, because Christopher suffers from Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism, and has a very problematic relationship with the world. Investigating the murder of the dog, Christopher begins to shed light on a mystery even more important that concerns him closely. As her mother died? Because her father did not want him to ask questions to neighbors? To answer, Christopher will have to undertake an initiatory journey to places and situations hardly tolerable for him, landing in a kind of adulthood, proud of able to move into the world of the other noisy and chaotic. "
I really like ... it is original, both as a language than as a story, and really exciting! I recommend it, really!
Ilaria.
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