I
usually prefer to read fiction in Arabic. However, while I was roaming at Jarir Bookstore, the weird title of this book grabbed my attention. I purchased it out of curiosity. When I started reading, the beginning was unimpressive. I thought, "kids detective story," this is not my idea of the word "interesting." But little by little, things change and I started enjoying the novel. The
NY Time says:
Mark Haddon's stark, funny and original first novel, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,'' is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.