Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and theircapitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has nounderstanding 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 widelyheralded novels in recent years.
克里斯多弗,一個15歲,聰明的小男孩,他知道世界上所有國家的名字和首都,他可以數到7,057的質數。他可以和動物互動關係很好,但他卻無法了解人類間的情感而成為自我封閉的小孩。
有天半夜在家裏附近發現鄰居的小狗被人用鐵叉給活活叉死,為了找出殺狗兇手,努力的把自己推進一個他完全無法了解、沒有任何邏輯可言的世界裏。同時,小男孩發現,隱藏在線索背後的,不只是殺狗兇手,還有著更多關於自己世界的秘密....