Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism - Hardcover

Higashida, Naoki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345809750 ISBN 13: 9780345809759

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 2017

Synopsis

A follow-up to its bestselling predecessor, The Reason I Jump opens an extraordinary, rare window into the mind and world of an autistic, non-verbal person--now coping with a young man's life.

Naoki Higashida wrote The Reason I Jump as a 13-year-old boy with severe autism, giving us all insight into a world never before open to us. Now he shares his thoughts and experiences as a 24-year-old. Based on his hugely succesful blogs in Japan, he gives us, in short powerful chapters, his moving, beautiful insights into life, identity, education, his family, our society, and personal growth. He allows readers to experience profound moments we take for granted, like the thought-steps necessary for him to register that it's raining outside. Introduced by award-winning author David Mitchell (co-translator with his wife KA Yoshida), this book is part memoir, part critique of a world that sees disabilities ahead of the individual, part self-portrait-in-progress of a young man who happens to have autism and wants to help us understand his world better.

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About the Author

NAOKI HIGASHIDA was born in 1992 and was diagnosed with autism at the age of five. His book The Reason I Jump was an international bestseller. He graduated from high school in 2011 and lives in Kimitsu, Japan. He is an advocate, motivational speaker, and the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction.

KA YOSHIDA was born in Yamaguchi, Japan, majored in English Poetry at Notre Dame Seishin University, and now lives in Ireland.

DAVID MITCHELL is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir, The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345809750
• ISBN 13: 9780345809759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240