Awards
Praise
"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent."
-The Boston Globe
"Moving. . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The
Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks's real-life stories."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"This is an amazing novel. An amazing book."
-The Dallas Morning News
"A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of
empathy."
-Ian McEwan, author of Atonement
"Brilliant. . . . Delightful. . . . Very moving, very plausible-and very
funny."
-Oliver Sacks
"Superb. . . . Bits of wisdom fairly leap off the page."
-Newsday
"Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect. . . . As
suspenseful and harrowing as anything in Conan Doyle."
-Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review
"Extraordinarily moving, often blackly funny. . . . It is hard to think of
anyone who would not be moved and delighted by this book."
-Financial Times, London
"Both clever and observant."
-The Washington Post
"Full of whimsical surprises and tender humor."
-People
"[Haddon] illuminates a core of suffering through the narrowly focused insights
of a boy who hasn't the words to describe emotional pain."
-New York Daily News
"Outstanding. . . . A stunningly good read."
-The Independent
"Engrossing . . . flawlessly imagined and deeply affecting."
-Time Out New York
"A remarkable book from a writer with very special talent."
-Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"The Curious Incident is the rare book that repays reading twice in
quick succession."
-Detroit Free Press
"Heart-in-the-mouth stuff, terrifying and moving. Haddon is to be congratulated
for imagining a new kind of hero."
-The Daily Telegraph
"This original and affecting novel is a triumph of empathy."
-The New Yorker
"Haddon's book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so humanely,
that it reads like both an acutely observed case study and an artful
exploration of a different 'mystery': the thoughts and feeling we share even
with those very different from us."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally disassociated mind is a superb
achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy."
-Ian McEwan, author of Atonement
"A murder mystery, a road atlas, a postmodern canvas of modern sensory
overload, a coming-of-age journal and lastly a really affecting look at the
grainy inconsistency of parental and romantic love and its failures. . . . In
this striking first novel, Mark Haddon is both clever and observant, and the
effect is vastly affecting."
-The Washington Post
"Haddon's gentle humor reminds us that facts don't add up to a life, that we
understand ourselves only through metaphor."
-Chicago Tribune
"Beautifully written. . . . Heart-in-the-mouth stuff, terrifying and moving.
Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind of hero, for the
humbling instruction this warm and often funny novel offers and for showing
that the best lives are lived where difference is cherished."
-The Daily Telegraph
"A detective story with a difference. . . . [Haddon] has given his unlikely
hero a convincing voice-and the detective novel an interesting twist."
-The Economist
"Think Huck Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, or the early chapters of David
Copperfield."
-Houston Chronicle
"A tale full of cheeky surprises and tender humor. . . . A touching evolution."
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Funny, sad and totally convincing."
-Time
"More so than precursors like The Sound and the Fury and Flowers for
Algernon, The Curious Incident is a radical experiment in empathy."
-The Village Voice
"One of the strangest and most convincing characters in recent fiction."
-Slate
"I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly
honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you
to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out."
-Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
"At once funny and achingly sad, this thought-provoking debut may leave us
wondering if our worn coping skills are really any better than Christopher's."
-The News and Observer
"Filled with humor and pain, [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]
verges on profundity."
-San Jose Mercury News
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brims with
imagination, empathy, and vision-plus it's a lot of fun to read."
-Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season