Awakening

The book that formed the basis of the famous Hollywood film with Robert de Niro in the title role!

The story that is read as good science fiction - although in reality the truth is described in it!... Letargic encephalitis. The disease, the epidemic of which swept around the world in 1918-20.

dozens of people fell into a lethargic dream, which lasted no less-fifty years. They were considered hopeless and contained in special clinics. But when in the early 1970s a new medicine was entered to the market of drugs, designed to combat Parkinson's disease, the young doctor Oliver Sax tried to try it on patients suffering from a “sleepy disease”.

He was risk and He believed in a miracle...