Seeing Voices

The sign language of the deaf-mute.

What is it: a pantomime that more or less successfully illustrates spoken language? Or an independent language with its own grammar and semantics, in no way inferior to spoken language?

In "Seeing Voices"—one of his most interesting works—Oliver Sacks puts forward a bold and original theory according to which sign language is the true and original language of the brain.

However, the main value of the book lies in the real stories of people with disabilities who not only struggled for a full life, but also won that struggle!..