Coma

From the internationally-known author of The Beach, a gripping mysteryand stylistic tour de force that delves into the subconscious mind, withbrilliantly disturbing results. A young man is brutally assaulted late at night in an underground trainby a gang of thugs.

Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospitalbed - but appears to make a full recovery.

On discharge from hospital,Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeinghis girlfriend - until he starts to notice strange leaps in hisperception of time, distortions in his experience.

Is he truly reactingwith the outside world, or might he be terribly mistaken?

So begins adark psychological drama that raises profound questions about theboundary between the real and the imagined.