Han bor sammen med sin far som sliter med å håndtere ham og hans merkelige adferd. Moren hans er død.
Christopher har laget en liste over de adferdsproblemene som han har:
- Ikke snakke til folk over lang tid.
- Ikke spise eller drikke over lang tid.
- Ikke like å bli berørt.
- Skrike når han er sint eller forvirret.
- Ikke like å være på trange steder sammen med andre.
- Knuse ting når han er sint eller forvirret.
- Stønne.
- Ikke like gule og brune ting og nekte å ta på dem.
- Nekte å bruke tannbørsten hvis noen har tatt på den.
- Ikke spise hvis forskjellige typer mat berører hverandre.
- Ikke legge merke til at folk er sint på ham.
- Ikke smile.
- Si ting som andre synes er frekt.
- Gjøre dumme ting.
- Slå andre folk.
- Hate Frankrike.
- Kjøre Mors bil.
- Bli sint når noen har flyttet på møblene.
Men så en dag finner Christopher naboens hund drept. Han bestemmer seg til å etterforske drapet og samtidig skrive en bok om det. Men etterforskningen gjør at han oppdager noe mye mere alvorlig enn den døde hunden....
Dette er en fantastisk god bok! Den er fortalt av Christopher i jeg-form og gir et fascinerende bilde av en autists måte å tenke på. Helt logisk, men utfra helt uforståelige premisser.
Og se hva Oliver Sacks sier: "...a delightful and brilliant book, Mark Haddon shows great insight into the autistic mind, and brings his young narrator protagonist quite wonderfully to life. "
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Amazon sier:
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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