A glimpse into the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant.
Outwardly, they seem like unapproachable geniuses. And inside?
Daniel Tammet can do what few in the world can. He can learn a foreign language in a week. He can name over twenty thousand digits in the number đ by heart and solve complex mathematical operations almost automatically. And he lives with synaesthesia - he perceives numbers or words as being firmly associated with certain colours, shapes and textures. His life path, however, is far from mathematical clarity; Exceptionalism usually also means misunderstanding and loneliness, ridicule and sometimes even bullying.
Born on a Blue Day is an autobiographical account of the childhood and adolescence of an exceptionally intelligent boy with Asperger's Syndrome, a genius for whom ordinary everyday situations are often an unsolvable problem.
The world bestseller, translated into nearly twenty languages, is a story about the unique experience of a sensitive boy and the society that surrounds him and shapes him with its demands and ideas.
