Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A young man's voice from the silence of autism

Naoki Higashida

ISBN 10: 144479910X / ISBN 13: 9781444799101

Published by Sceptre, 2018

About this Item

Following his ground-breaking international bestseller THE REASON I JUMP, written when he was only thirteen, Naoki Higashida offers equally illuminating and practical insights into autism from his current perspective as a young man.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A young man's voice from the silence of autism
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144479910X
• ISBN 13: 9781444799101
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The author of the bestselling phenomenon The Reason I Jump returns with a unique memoir about life as a young adult with severe autism. With an introduction by David Mitchell, who translated this book with his wife, KA Yoshida, this extraordinary new work explores education, identity, family, society, and personal growth, opening a window into the mind of its nonverbal author and providing remarkable insights into autism in general.

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.