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Awakenings

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Awakenings
6.99 €
The book that was the basis for the famous Hollywood movie of the same name starring Robert De Niro!
A story that reads like good fiction - although in reality it describes the truth!
...Lethargic encephalitis. A disease that swept across the world in 1918-1920.
Dozens of people fell into a lethargic sleep that lasted no more than fifty years. They were considered hopeless and kept in special clinics. But when in the early 1970s on the drug market came a new drug designed to combat Parkinson's disease, a young doctor Oliver Sacks tried to try it on patients suffering from "sleeping sickness".
He took a risk and believed in a miracle.....
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