Das Hospital der Verklärung

Blurb

Hospital of the Transfiguration is a book written by Stanisław Lem. It tells the story of a young doctor, Stefan Trzyniecki, who after graduation starts to work in a psychiatric hospital. The story takes place during the Nazi occupation of Poland in the Second World War.
The book is the first of a trilogy entitled Time Not Lost, and the only one of the three to be translated into English.
The book was adapted as a film of the same name in 1979.