Biblioteca

What would you like to be in the future?
I think I would make a very good astronaut. To be a good astronaut you have to be someone who would like being on their own in a tiny spacecraft thousands and thousands of miles away from the surface of the earth and not panic or get claustrophobia or homesick or insane. And I like really little spaces, so long as there is no one else in them with me.

This is Christopher, the autistic teenager who leads us through his story in which he tries to find out who killed Wellington, a neighbour’s dog. He tells us about his family, his neighbours, his teachers and his classmates, but we also learn about prime numbers, the Milky Way, why he likes Sherlock Holmes, how making timetables helps him to understand time or why, when he finds himself in a stressful situation, he doubles 2s in his head or tries to solve quadratic equations.

With his story we see a world uspside down through the eyes of someone who is different and who shows us that there are more ways of looking at ourselves. It is also through Christopher’s story that we realise that human relationships cannot be explained in a logical way and how our worlds are shaped by feelings.

I loved this book, I found it original, moving and really entertaining.

Begonia Iglesias, English teacher