The narrative sections of this book document a journey to a remarkable place: an isolated Middle Eastern village whose inhabitants «speak» sign language —
a language unlike any other in the world, witnessed by few outsiders and never before described.
It's a story that never goes out of style: Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's chronicle of an inquisitive girl lost
in a parallel
world of talking animals and pompous royals, is a tale
unlike any
other — one that celebrates the complexities of
language, the singular genius of children and the absurdity that lurks just beneath the surface of reality.