Book by Brewer Gene
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When a new patient is brought to a mental institution claiming to be an inhabitant of a planet called K-PAX, the hospital seems just the place for him. Yet, except for certain otherworldly abilities, the "alien," prot, appears to be perfectly sane.
In taped therapy sessions prot is asked about life on K-PAX - its lifestyle, principles, foods, language. Prot paints a consistent and credible portrait of a glorious utopia painfully unlike our own and yet so possible, could we only erase from human nature its greed and cruelty. It becomes easy, even desirable, to believe in prot's identity and homeland.
But prot insists that he must return home. As his announced date of "departure" approaches, staff and patients alike are thrown into turmoil: If he is mad, what will happen when the fateful day arrives? If K-PAX is for real...please, may they come along too?
Prot acaba de ingresar en una de las instituciones para enfermos mentales de la ciudad de Nueva York. El motivo está plenamente justificado: afirma ser un alienígena proveniente del planeta K-Pax, un planeta donde reina la armonía. Es su único rasgo peculiar, puesto que por lo demás, Prot es una persona cuerda, inteligente y de maneras agradables. Pacientes, celadores y médicos enstán encantados con su presencia. Tanto que incluso los especialistas han empezado a dudar. ¿Y si K-Pax existiese en algún lugar del universo? ¿Y si Prot pudiese indicarnos el camino?
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