The release date for the English version of 'An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales' by
Oliver Sacks is Jan 1995. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Oliver Sacks brings the same deep compassion and unwavering curiosity that made "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" worldwide bestsellers to these seven contradictory stories of brain dysfunction and creativity. He immerses us in the strange worlds of his subjects, which include an autistic professor with a Ph.D. in animal science who feels "like an anthropologist on Mars" due to the complexity of human emotion, an artist who loses the ability to see (or even imagine) color, and a surgeon who performs delicate operations despite obsessive tics and outbursts caused by Tourette's syndrome.
Sacks investigates what it means to feel, perceive, and remember—and, in the end, to be a coherent self in the world—through these remarkable individuals.