Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone has Aperger's Syndrome, a condition similar to autism. He doesn't like to be touched or to meet new people, he cannot make small talk, and he hates the colors brown and yellow. One night, he observes that the neighbor's dog has been killed, since it is not moving and has a large garden fork stuck in its body. Christopher knows this is wrong. Now he has to leave his street in order to find out who killed the dog. What he discovers will shake the very foundation of his perfectly ordered life.

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