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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey from the USA. Even though the book is quite old, written in 1962, it is still a populare book read all over the world. In 1975 the novel was made into a movie starring Jack Nichols. The movie later won five Academy Awards.

The book takes place in a mental hospital in Oregon in America. The story is told by a half-indian inmate called "Chief" Bromden, but focuses on the newcomer Randle Patrick McMurphy. He is a criminal who forged insanity to serve his sentence in the hospital instead of a prison. During the first chapters we get to learn about the daily routines in the hospital and about the tyrannical Nurse Rathced who runs the ward. She keeps the patience heavily medicated and treathens them with electric shock therapy if the disobey her.