New Releases by Mark Haddon

De 57-jarige George Hall kijkt uit naar een welverdiend pensioen - maar dan ontdekt hij iets verontrustends. Een cirkelvormige rode vlek op zijn heup doet hem geloven dat hij huidkanker heeft. Dan besluit zijn onstuimige dochter te trouwen met haar volgens George totaal ongeschikte vriendje; zijn vrouw stort zich in een nogal late en voor George pijnlijke liefdesaffaire met zijn ex-collega; en het plezierige en opgeruimde leven van zijn zoon brokkelt geleidelijk af wanneer hij zich er maar niet toe kan zetten zijn minnaar uit te nodigen voor de trouwerij van zijn zuster. Temidden van dit alles probeert George op een waardige manier gek te worden, zonder dat iemand last van hem heeft.Een akkefietje is een roman over de wijze waarop geestelijk en lichamelijk beschadigde mensen van elkaar vervreemden - én hoe ze elkaar weer weten te vinden. Na ''Het wonderlijke voorval met de hond in de nacht'' bewijst Mark Haddon ook met dit boek dat hij een meester is op het gebied van een op een geestige, confronterende en aangrijpende wijze vertellen van een verhaal.

From the "terrifyingly talented" (The Times, [London]) author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise, eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love For millenia Greek myths have fascinated people, who have seen in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and imagines them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In "The Quiet Limit of the World" Haddon imagines Tithonus'' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In "The Mother’s Story," Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king''s wife Pasiphaë, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. In "D.O.G.Z.," the story of Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after glimpsing the naked goddess Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about the continuum of human and animal behavior. Other stories play with contemporary mythic tropes—genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism—to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Haddon''s tales cover a vast range, from the mythic to the domestic, from ancient Greece to the present day, from stories about love to stories about cruelty, from battlefields to bed and breakfasts, from dogs in space to doors between worlds, all of them bound together by a profound sympathy and an understanding of how human beings act and think and feel when pushed to the very edge. Throughout, Haddon''s supple prose showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic.

La detektivo kaj rakontanto de tiu ĉi sensimila krimromano estas Kristoforo Beno, 15-jaraĝa kiu havas Asperger-sindromon. Li trovas najbaran hundon murdita, kaj, klopodante solvi la misteron, ekpaŝas al timiga vojaĝo.

„Un roman scris de autorul bestsellerului O întâmplare ciudată cu un câine la miezul nopții" „Uimitor de ambițios și de inovator, o carte superb scrisă." Pat Barker Unicul supraviețuitor al unui oribil accident aviatic este o nou-născută. Fetița va fi crescută în totală izolare de un tată putred de bogat și incestuos. Ajunsă o tânără frumoasă, ea trăiește într-un lux de basm, victimă însă a propriului părinte monstruos. Asta până când un necunoscut se îndrăgostește de ea și declanșează un blestem implacabil. Un roman ce sare din contemporaneitate în lumea antică, din realismul actualității într-o fantezie atemporală: pirați, prințese, strigoiul lui Shakespeare și o legendă străveche ce-și desface firele narative în timp și spațiu. Marsuinul este teribil de violent, de o ferocitate luminoasă, inocentă... Haddon reușește să restituie rolul de primă mână personajelor feminine lăsate în umbra de legendă lui Antiochus. The New Yorker Marsuinul declanșează plăcerea pură a lecturii. Max Porter Marsuinul lui Mark Haddon e un candidat serios la titlul de Romanul anului 2019. The Observer

A tizenöt éves Christopher autista: nagyon sokat tud a matematikáról és a fizikáról, de nagyon keveset az emberi érzelmekről. Nem szereti, ha hozzáérnek, és nem hajlandó megérinteni semmit, ami sárga vagy barna. Űrhajós szeretne lenni, de még sohasem járt a szülei nélkül az utcájukon túl. És alighanem ő a világirodalom egyik legkülönösebb nyomozója – egy este ugyanis a szomszédasszony kutyáját döglötten, vasvillával átszúrva találja a kertben, és elhatározza, hogy kinyomozza, ki ölte meg. Így kezdődnek Christopher különös kalandjai, melyek során nemcsak a kutya gyilkosának kilétére derül fény, hanem ennél jóval fontosabb dolgokra is, amelyek sok mindent megváltoztatnak mind az ő, mind a szülei életében... Mark Haddon bámulatos beleérzéssel ábrázolja az autista fiú végtelenül racionális gondolkodását, sajátos érzelemvilágát. Könyve izgalmas és megható olvasmány gyerekeknek és felnőtteknek egyaránt.

Angelica, az újszülött kisbaba az egyetlen túlélője egy tragikus repülőgép-balesetnek. Mesésen gazdag apja a széltől is óvja, a világtól teljesen elzárva neveli fel a lányt, aki semmit nem tud a róla keringő pletykákról. Ám egy nap Darius, az ifjú műkereskedő mégis eljut a fényűző villába, és többet megért a lány és az apja közötti kapcsolatból, mint amennyit szabadna. Az életéért menekülve a Delfin nevű hajón szökik üldözője elől, aki meg akarja ölni őt... S ezzel megkezdődik az őrült, vér-, könny- és sós víz áztatta kaland, amely az elbeszélés hullámain napjaink Franciaországa, az ókori Görögország és a shakespeare-i Anglia között hánykolódik; amely majd elsüllyed a gyász sziklazátonyain, ám mégis partot ér; amelyben kalózok fosztogatnak, pestisjárvány tombol, és egy hercegnő kezét elnyeri egy birkózóbajnok – és amelyben egy kegyetlen világban egy szétszóródott család tagjai próbálják megtalálni az otthon felé vezető utat.

SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia Kristeva’s theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille’s societal equivalent – with visceral stories of modern unease. As we become ever-more isolated by social media bubbles, or the demands for social distancing, our moral gag-reflex is increasingly sensitised, and our ability to tolerate difference, or ‘the other’, atrophies. Like all good horror writing, these stories remind us that exposure to what unsettles us, even in small doses, is always better than pretending it doesn’t exist. After all, we can never be wholly free of that which belongs to us.

A magical celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing from the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.

Ocho destacados escritores contemporáneos reinterpretan las clásicas historias de fantasmas en esta inquietante colección de relatos ambientados en las localizaciones más misteriosas de las islas británicas. Inglaterra es por excelencia la tierra de las apariciones y los lugares encantados. Para este libro, ocho prominentes novelistas británicos tuvieron la oportunidad de elegir un edificio perteneciente al English Heritage —una institución pública que protege y promueve el patrimonio histórico inglés— y permanecer en él después del horario de visita habitual. Inmersos en la historia, la atmósfera y las leyendas sobre esos emplazamientos, canalizaron la parte más oscura de su fantasía para crear las extraordinarias historias de fantasmas contemporáneas recogidas en este volumen. La mansión jacobea de Audley, el fuerte romano de Housesteads, los castillos de Dover, Kenilworth, Pendennis y Carlisle, el palacio de Eltham y un búnker de la Guerra Fría situado en York. Entre los muros de estos famosos lugares encantados, cada autor encontró la inspiración necesaria para reinterpretar a su manera las clásicas ghost stories, que llevan aterrorizando desde hace generaciones a cuantos lectores se acercan a ellas.

In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.

De 15-jarige Christopher is autistisch en leeft in een beperkt, veilig wereldje. Nadat de hond van de buurvrouw vermoord is, onderneemt hij een speurtocht die zijn leven op zijn kop zal zetten. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. With her husband, Leonard Woolf, she started the Hogarth Press in 1917: the list ranged widely in fiction, poetry, politics and psychoanalysis, and published all Virginia Woolf’s own work. Its first publication appeared in 2017: Two Stories, bound in bright Japanese paper, contained a short story from both Virginia and Leonard. Typeset and bound by Virginia, with illustrations by Dora Carrington, 134 copies were printed by Leonard using a small handpress installed in the dining room at Hogarth House, Richmond. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of ‘Publication No. 1’ this new edition of Two Stories takes the original text of Virginia’s story, ‘The Mark on the Wall’ (with illustrations by Dora Carrington), and pairs it with a new story, ‘St Brides Bay’, by Mark Haddon, a lifelong reader of Virginia Woolf. TWO STORIES also includes a portrait of Virginia Woolf by Mark Haddon, and a short introduction from the publisher about the founding of the Press.

DEN MYSTISKE SAG OM HUNDEN I NATTEN er en usædvanlig mordgåde. Detektiv og fortæller er den 15-årige Christopher Boone, der bor alene med sin far og lider af Aspergers syndrom, en form for autisme. Han forstår ikke metaforer, ironi og ansigtsudtryk og hader berøringer og farverne brun og gul. Men han elsker matematik, logik, lister og sandheden. En dag finder han genboens hund myrdet og sætter sig for at finde gerningsmanden. Efterforskningen af mysteriet om den myrdede hund sender ham hovedkulds ud på en rejse gennem en verden, han ikke forstår. Og den fører til opklaringen af en hemmelighed, som vender op og ned på hans liv.

De 15-jarige autistische Christopher heeft ontdekt wie de hond van zijn buurvrouw vermoordde. En zijn moeder blijkt niet overleden. Leeftijd: 15+ ''Het wonderbaarlijke voorval met de hond in de nacht'' van Mark Haddon is het hartveroverende, inmiddels klassieke verhaal om te lezen en te herlezen. Christopher, de detective in deze ongewone detectiveroman, is een vijftienjarige jongen met een vorm van autisme. Hij weet veel van wiskunde en weinig van mensen. Hij houdt van lijstjes, patronen en de waarheid. Hij houdt niet van de kleuren geel en bruin. Hij is in zijn eentje nooit verder geweest dan het einde van de straat, maar wanneer de hond van de buurvrouw vermoord blijkt te zijn, begint hij aan een reis die zijn hele wereld op z’n kop zet.

From Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional power The tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling. The characters here are often isolated physically or estranged from their families, yet they yearn for connection. In aggregate the stories become a meditation on the essential aloneness of the human condition but also on the connections, however tenuous and imperfect, that link people to one another. In the title story, an unnamed narrator describes with cool precision a catastrophe that strikes a seaside town, both tearing lives apart and bringing them together. In the prizewinning story “The Gun,” a boy’s life is marked by the afternoon he encounters a semiautomatic pistol belonging to his friend’s older brother; in “The Island,” a Greek princess is abandoned on an island by her abductor; in “The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear,” a group of adventurers travel deep into the Amazonian jungle but discover the gravest danger lurking among their own number; and in “The Woodpecker and the Wolf,” a woman wonders whether she has chosen to travel to Mars only to escape the entanglement of human relationships back here on Earth. Drawing inventively from history, myth, folktales, and modern life, The Pier Falls showcases Haddon’s immense gifts of invention and penetrating insight.

En froid avec sa soeur Angela depuis des années, Richard décide d''enterrer la hache de guerre, et l''invite à passer des vacances en compagnie de sa famille. L''intention est belle, mais la cohabitation s''annonce plus que délicate : quatre adultes qui ruminent de vieux griefs, trois ados et un enfant qui se connaissent à peine, coincés sous le même toit pendant une semaine au fin fond de la campagne galloise, où la pluie ne s''arrête jamais et où les téléphones ne passent pas... Cela risque de faire quelques étincelles.

A magical story from Mark Haddon, author of the phenomenally best-selling ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time’

Polar Bears is a captivating tale by award-winning writer Mark Haddon. Balancing humour and pathos, it tells of one man''s struggle to love, support and live with someone suffering from a psychological condition. With an elliptical structure and teasing timeline, the play handles the subject sensitively, with vivid, sympathetically-drawn characters and nicely-balanced dialectics. Polar Bears is thought-provoking and intelligent, with echoes of Nietszchean philosophy, and it refuses to offer any easy answers for those embroiled in mental instability. The plot is as follows: John has never met anyone like Kay. When the moon is in the right phase, she is magnetic and amazingly alive. But when the darkness closes in, she is lost to another world, a world in which John does not belong. Mark Haddon is a hugely celebrated writer who is best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time, which won a string of prestigious awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year. It quickly became an international bestseller, was printed in 32 countries and translated into 15 languages. Polar Bears is his first work for the theatre and enjoyed a high profile premiere at the Donmar Warehouse 1 April - 22 May 2010, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Jodhi May and Richard Coyle.

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the ''Sparknotes'' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the ''Sparknotes'' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.

«Con quanta umanità scrive il signor Haddon, con quanta comprensione». Michiko Kakutani, «The New York Times» *** «Dietro a ogni cosa c''è una casa. Dietro a ogni cosa c''è sempre una casa». Nel verde della campagna inglese otto personaggi condividono per una settimana la stessa casa. Due famiglie - due coppie, i figli adolescenti e il piccolo Benjy - camminano, quasi si rincorrono, lungo i confini di un''intimità che i saldi muri di pietra dovrebbero proteggere e che il paesaggio morbido dovrebbe rendere piú dolce. Tutti insieme, e però chiusi nella solitudine dei propri pensieri: ognuno ha un segreto, un desiderio o un rimpianto che tiene nascosto agli altri, e talvolta anche a se stesso. Finché un gesto amoroso o disperato, aggressivo o casuale, lo svela nella sua abbagliante evidenza.

«Mark Haddon riesce in un''impresa eccezionale: il ritratto di un adolescente emotivamente dissociato. La sua è una scrittura seria eppure divertente, che possiede il raro dono dell''empatia». Ian McEwan

1 Haus + 2 Familien = 100 Dramen In den letzten 15 Jahren haben Angela und ihr Bruder Richard nur einen Nachmittag miteinander verbracht. Denn sie leben in unterschiedlichen Welten: er als erfolgreicher Radiologe in Edinburgh, sie als Lehrerin, die nicht nur ihre drei Kinder, sondern auch noch ihren Mann, einen Luftikus, ernähren muss. Doch jetzt, nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter, mietet Richard für eine Woche ein altes, rotes Herrenhaus in Herefordshire und lädt seine Schwester und deren Familie ein. Richard selbst kommt mit seiner zweiten Ehefrau und seiner Stieftochter Melissa, einer hübschen, selbstbewussten, permanent auf Flirt gepolten 15-Jährigen, die Angelas ältestem Sohn den Kopf verdreht. Und nicht nur ihm, sondern zur Verwirrung aller auch noch Angelas Tochter, die gerade erst zu einer religiösen Schwärmerin mutiert war. Eine moderne Patchworkfamilie trifft auf eine Großfamilie traditionellen Stils, Generation Facebook steht den Rockopas gegenüber. Das Ergebnis: Allenthalben lauern Abgründe, schwelen komische und ernste Konflikte – bis ein lang zurückreichendes Trauma, das Angelas gesamtes Familienleben überschattet hat, endlich aufbricht.

"The novel''s pleasure, there in spades, lies in Haddon''s caustic wit, his pitch-perfect nailing of each of his characters, and in his absurdly concise descriptions of the most banal activities. . . . In providing it, Haddon proves himself, once again, to be a brilliant, modern observer and cataloguer of human vice and frailty." —National Post The setup 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 remarried and acquired a willful stepdaughter in the process; Angela has a feckless husband and three children who sometimes seem alien to her. All eight arrive with low expectations for a pleasant holiday. But because of Haddon''s extraordinary narrative technique, the stories of these eight people are anything but familiar. Told through the alternating viewpoints of each character, The Red House 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.

Ah, os irmãos mais velhos! Quando eles dizem uma coisa para os mais novos — qualquer coisa — é melhor desconfiar. Quando a irmã de Jimbo diz que ele será transferido para uma escola especial para “crianças com problemas”, aí sim começa o problema. Para saber se isso é mesmo verdade, o melhor amigo de Jimbo, Charlie, tem a brilhante ideia de espionar a sala dos professores. Jimbo, Jimbo... Também é bom desconfiar um pouquinho das ideias “brilhantes” dos melhores amigos. Ouvir dois professores conversando em uma língua totalmente maluca será o começo de uma encrenca maior ainda. Que a sra. Pearce e o sr. Kidd estão batendo o maior papo, deu pra perceber. Mas quando eles dizem coisas como “Toller bandol venting” e “Tractor bonting dross” o negócio fica complicado. Será que esses dois são ladrões de banco falando em código? Ou espiões? Aliens talvez? O que quer que sejam, Jimbo e seu amigo terão que descobrir. Mas quando Charlie desaparece, Jimbo precisa contar com a ajuda de Becky. Ela mesma, a irmã mais velha. Usando uma moto “emprestada”, os dois partem em missão de resgate até a Ilha de Skye, na Escócia. Parece que um grupo muito doido de fãs de ficção científica, amiguinhos da sra. Pearce e do sr. Kidd, pode ter algo a ver com o misterioso sumiço.

Del autor de El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche, una novela para niños en la que luce de nuevo su personalísima imaginación, cargada de sentido del humor y geniales detalles de fantasía desbordante. De pura casualidad, Jim y su mejor amigo Charlie descubren que dos profesores de su instituto se comunican en un incomprensible idiomasecreto. Presas de la curiosidad, se confabulan para desentrañar un misterio que, día tras día, se vuelve más inquietante. ¿Qué significan palabras como spudvetch o snekkit? ¿Quiénes son los Centinelas? ¿Y por qué, de repente, los ojos del profesor Kidd destellan con una fluorescencia azul? ¿No será que el señor Kidd y la señora Pearce, con su extraño lenguaje codificado, son asaltantes de bancos, espías de una potencia enemiga, o incluso alienígenas que preparan una invasión de la Tierra? En su afán de hallar la respuesta a todo este enigma, ambos amigos acaban viajando al espacio infinito, donde vivirán la aventura más emocionante y peligrosa que nadie habría podido imaginar. Reseñas: «Una aventura divertida y trepidante.» The Bookbag «Una extraordinaria aventura cuya intensidad no decae en ningún momento.» The Irish Examiner «Excelente diversión para los lectores jóvenes.» The Daily Mail «Una alocada aventura, vertiginosa y completamente increíble, aunque nadie dudará de una sola palabra.» Publishers Weekly «Una aventura desternillante.» The Bookseller «Den un ejemplar de este libro a todos los niños de entre 7 y 11 años. ¡Más, por favor!» The School Librarian