The curious incident of the dog in the night time

This novel is written from the point of view of a 15 year old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome, called Christopher Boone. Christopher is a genius when it comes to solving mathematical problems or science questions. But when it comes to communicating with people or understanding them, he utterly fails. He absolutely can’t stand being touched, he can hardly distinguish between a smiling face and a crying one, he’s not able to understand jokes and when he can’t handle the incoming information anymore, he crouches on the floor and groans. Thus his life’s not a normal one; he attends a special school, has nearly no friends, follows a strict timetable for each day, lives alone with his father because his mother has died and so spends a lot of time watching TV or playing video games. But his life starts changing when he discovers the dead body of the neighbour’s dog, killed with a garden fork. Because he likes dogs, he decides to investigate and to seek out the murderer and to write a book about the whole affair. The result is this novel.