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THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THE AWARD-WINNING LONDON THEATRICAL SENSATION NOW ON BROADWAY MORE THAN 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he hates the color yellow. The improbable story of Christopher’s quest as he investigates the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years

This is an unusual story about a young 15 year old autistic boy called Christopher Boone.But it's not only the unusualness of this one boy that makes this book special.It is how messed up we "normal" people actually are.It's us who do most of the irrational things. The boy lost his mother two years ago.He presently lives with his caring but sometimes 'losing-his -mind-under-pressure' father.His favourite subjects are mathematics and physics.Has a knack for solving difficult problems as well as an astoundingly good memory like many autistic people do.The story started with the murder of a dog named Wellington in his neighbourhood.And just because Chritopher was an autistic young boy who happened to find out first that Wellington was dead,the owner of the dog Mrs Shears took him to be the murderer without blinking an eye. The police came and took him to jail. After getting released with an warning from the police inspector Christopher set out to find the real murderer of the dog. But the truths he actually dug out were far more shocking and devastating for his simple mind-brilliant yet unable to grasp human complexity. This seemingly insignificant incident went back to two years ago and connected his father,mother,neighbour Mr and Mrs Shears in a way that came crashing into his life and altered it. Everything he thought he knew became confusing and left him in even more volatile mood. The story got sidetracked a lot.But that did not bore me because that's how an autistic mind is supposed to work.He talked about maths and formulae and puzzles,constellations and sky and clouds,psychology and human relationship and how our brains work,evolution and medical conditions and geography -all very deep subjects for a 15 year old.There was simply no prediction as to what he would say next because his mind wandered like a firefly jumping from this topic to that.Some readers may not find it very attractive to read when he talks so sporadically but then again we are not much familiar with autistic children's minds,are we?And this books is an excellent chance to peep into their wonderful thought process. This book shows people's general detest for the minority,those personnels of society whom we call "special" or "abnormal" so generously.But when we come to know them it's very easy to sympathize with them or even love them. Deftly describing,this book was not made too long by English novelist Mark Haddon.It's pretty fast paced.I tore through the book and couldn't keep it down even for 5 minutes.Everyone specially maths and psychology lovers will find this book really interesting.And I think this book is a must read for everyone in our society because of its amazing eye opening quality.