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ISBN 13: 9780007103461
ISBN 10: 0007103468
Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
Book Description: The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho , a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days as to her surprise she finds herself experiencing feelings she has never really felt before. Against all odds he finds herself falling in love and even wanting to live again ...
Editorial Review: A touching, if overexplicit, fable about learning to live in the face of death. As he confides in an early chapter, Coelho himself (The Fifth Mountain, 1998, etc.) was apparently institutionalized simply because his adolescent behavior baffled his parents. Here, he returns to the world of mental hospitals indirectly via Veronika, a Ljubljana librarian whotired of the fact that, at 24, she already finds every day like every other and cant imagine any future but increasing boredom, decay, and deathtakes an overdose of sleeping pills. She awakens in Villette, Slovenias notorious lunatic asylum, to learn that shes damaged her heart irreparably and has only a week to live. Initially rebelling against her keepers solicitous rules and regulations (``I'm not here to preserve my life, but to lose it, she reminds a nurse), she finds first her curiosity and then, gradually, her passions aroused by her fellow patients. Serbian Zedka Mendel, lacking a necessary brain chemical, endures megadoses of insulin that send her into comas. Mari, a lawyer who committed herself because she was suffering from panic attacks, has been asymptomatic for years but, divorced and forced into retirement, has nothing left to return to. Eduard, a schizophrenic whose case seems most like Coelhos, is an ambassadors son who ended up in Villette after rejecting a diplomatic career to paint. Regrettably, however, Coelho, preaching the need to live your own life in the face of death and social regimentation, cant resist capping these often poignant stories with sanity-is-the-true-madness insights out of R.D. Laing and prosy homiletics (Its what you are, not what others make of you) that seem to have been cribbed from a high- school health textbook. Imagine peering into the very heart of the mystical rose in Dantes Paradise and finding the neon injunction: TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. "Girl, Interrupted meets The Catcher in the Rye...you'll appreciate Veronika's sensual nihilism." -- --Mademoiselle "Told with sincerity approaching urgency, Coelho's novel is surprisingly effective." -- Boston Globe "With Veronika Decides to Die Coelho's legend keeps growing." -- La Presna (Argentina) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author: The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO is considered one of the most influential authors of our times. His books have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide, have been released in 170 countries and been translated into 80 languages. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, he soon discovered his vocation for writing. He worked as a director, theater actor, songwriter and journalist. His collaboration with Brazilian composer and singer Raúl Seixas gave some of the greatest classic rock songs in Brazil. In 1986, a special meeting led him to make the pilgrimage to Saint James Compostela (in Spain). The Road to Santiago was not only a common pilgrimage but a turning point in his existence. A year later, he wrote 'The Pilgrimage', an autobiographical novel that is considered the beginning of his career. In the following year, COELHO published 'The Alchemist'. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.Other titles include 'Brida' (1990), 'The Valkyries' (1992), 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept' (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo entitle 'Maktub' (1994), the compilation of texts 'Phrases' (1995), 'The Fifth Mountain' (1996), 'Manual of a Warrior of Light' (1997), 'Veronika decides to die' (1998), 'The Devil and Miss Prym' (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in 'Stories for parents, children and grandchildren' (2001), 'Eleven Minutes' (2003), 'The Zahir' (2005), 'Like the Flowing River' (2006), 'The Witch of Portobello' (2006), 'The Winner Stands Alone' (2008), 'Aleph' (2010), 'Manuscript found in Accra' (2012) and 'Adultery' (2014).He has received numerous prestigious international awards. He is member of the Academy of Letters of Brazil since 2002 and Messenger of Peace by the United Nations since 2007. In 2009 he received the Guinness World Record for the most translated author for the same book (The Alchemist).The man behind the author likes to write and practices Kyudo - a meditative archery. He loves reading, walking, football and computers. In that sense, he has always maintained a close contact with his readers but now, and thanks to the new media, he has established an incredible feedback with them. Paulo was the second most influential celebrity on Twitter in 2010 according to Forbes and he is the writer with the highest number of followers in the social media.In the past years Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress.
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Author: Paulo Coelho
Edition Number: New Edition
Publication Date: 2000
Number of Pages: 208