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An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of

The set-up of Mark Haddon's brilliant new novel is simple: Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join his for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside. Richard has just re-married and inherited a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. The stage is set for seven days of resentment and guilt, a staple of family gatherings the world over.

But because of Haddon's extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but simple. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, becomes a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams and rising hopes, tightly-guarded secrets and illicit desires, all adding up to a portrait of contemporary family life that is bittersweet, comic, and deeply felt. As we come to know each character they become profoundly real to us. We understand them, even as we come to realize they will never fully understand each other, which is the tragicomedy of every family.

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Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel and , returns with a collection of unsparing short stories.

In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty.45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the men and women who fill this searingly imaginative and emotionally taut collection of short stories by Mark Haddon, that weaves through time and space to showcase the author's incredible versatility.

Yet the collection achieves a sum that is greater than its parts, proving itself a meditation not only on isolation and loneliness but also on the tenuous and unseen connections that link individuals to each other, often despite themselves. In its titular story, the narrator describes with fluid precision a catastrophe that will collectively define its victims as much as it will disperse them — and brilliantly lays bare the reader's appetite for spectacle alongside its characters'. Cut with lean prose and drawing inventively from history, myth, fairy tales, and, above all, the deep well of empathy that made his three novels so compelling, reveals a previously unseen side of the celebrated author.

П’ятнадцятирічний аутист Крістофер Бун, якому важко розуміти людські емоції і легко підкорити математичну логіку, порівнює свій мозок з комп’ютером, який відмовляється обробляти надлишок інформації і просто «зависає». За допомогою дедуктивного методу Шерлока Голмса Крістофер намагається не лише розкрити загадкове вбивство сусідського собаки, а й створити за окремими зрозумілими йому деталями власну дивовижну картину світу. І коли хлопчик, що для прогулянок малює мапи власної вулиці, відважиться на подорож до Лондона — це буде його перший крок у нове життя.

Пятнадцатилетний Кристофер Бун – аутист. Он талантливый математик и очень умный парень, вот только его цепкая память и живой ум совсем не помогают ему в жизни. Пока однажды – если быть точными, в семь минут первого ночи – его не застают на заднем дворе соседей. Рядом лежит обезображенный пес. Теперь Кристофер – подозреваемый! Сможет ли мальчик провести расследование и доказать окружающим, что он не имеет никакого отношения к смерти беззащитного животного. Или имеет?