The exterior of the book

Well, some days have passed by since I wrote my last post. In the meantime I managed to finish reading the chosen book. I feel very enthusiastic about it! Of course, I won't prepone the pleasure to read more postings about it, and therefore I'm going to write on about some incidents (some curious, some less curious) and my feelings and opinions...
Although I was disappointed about the dog's death, something pulled me to go on reading. Today I would like to describe some stylistic items concerning the novel.
The first thing I found interesting was the numbering of the chapters. The novel begins at chapter 2 and proceeds through 3, 5, 7, 11 and so on. I even had the idea it was numbered in the way of prime numbers; this fact was confirmed in the second chapter with the number "3" when Christopher introduces himself and says: "I know all the countries of the world ant their capital cities and every prime number up to 7.507."
The second very interesting fact is the topical structure of the book. There is a continuous change between tha chapters: one chapter deals with the actual incident of the dog and the next one supplies information about the protagonist, who is the narrator. The reason lies in the author's aim to write a strory told through the eyes of an autistic boy, who accordingly tells what is going through his mind at the moment. Christopher decides to solve the dog's murder, an investigation that will lead him to discover the truth not only about the dog's death but also about his mother's sudden death two years earlier. The details of his investigation are recorded in the form of a novel. "A murder mystery novel", Chris tells the reader. But this is not a typical murder mystery. There are clues, suspects, an amateur sleuth and even a couple of red herrings, but the author continually subverts the genre and the novel format, playing with the reader's expectations as he shows them the world through Christophers's eyes.
The third considerable item are the visual features of the book - the pages of the novel are filled with diagrams. maps, lists, footm´notes and illustrations, both relevant and irrelevant to the central story. I really like it!
Well, I think that's enough about the exterior of the book. In the following postings you'll read more content-related statements...