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Qui est Athéna, si charismatique et si vulnérable à la fois ? Fille adoptive d'une famille libanaise exilée à Londres, elle rencontre à l'université le futur père de son enfant. Bouleversée par sa propre maternité, elle part à la recherche de sa mère biologique, une gitane roumaine. Paulo Coelho retrace le voyage initiatique de la mystérieuse Athéna à travers le prisme de ceux qui l'ont connue. Une magnifique leçon de vie et d'amour.

Twenty-one-year-old Brida meets a magician and asks to become a witch. Headstrong and the personification of the Divine Feminine, she learns love is the only bridge to the spiritual world.

Twentyone year old Brida meets a magician and asks to become a witch. Headstrong and the personification of the Divine Feminine, she learns love is the only bridge to the spiritual world.

Maria, uma jovem do Nordeste brasileiro, sonha viver uma vida de aventura e encontrar o seu grande amor. Quando, numas férias em Copacabana, conhece um homem que lhe propõe que vá para a Suíça trabalhar como bailarina numa boîte, ela imagina que está a viver o início de um conto de fadas, mas a realidade será bem mais dura. Maria acaba por trabalhar como prostituta, aprendendo a viver do sexo e a utilizá-lo para satisfazer os outros. Contudo, a verdadeira natureza do sexo, assim como a do amor, permanece um mistério para ela. Até que conhece um homem que a fará reconsiderar tudo aquilo que ela pensa conhecer acerca do sentido da sexualidade...

Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all -- parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs! Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. This gripping new novel is filled with the themes Paulo fans know and love: spirituality, relationships, destiny, freedom.

A glória do mundo é transitória, e não é ela que nos dá a dimensão da nossa vida - mas a escolha que fazemos de seguir a nossa lenda pessoal, de acreditar nas nossas utopias e de lutar por elas. Somos todos protagonistas da nossa existência e, muitas vezes, são os heróis anónimos que deixam as marcas mais duradouras. Este livro é um corte transversal na anatomia da escrita de Paulo Coelho. Esta compilação de contos, opiniões e ideias constitui um belíssimo reflexo da vasta criação do escritor. Peças literárias de vários períodos e publicações compõem este livro, que tece uma linha sensível, acompanhada pelo olhar do criador, detendo-se naqueles pormenores da realidade quotidiana e da contemplação que destilam a subtil filosofia de quem observa a existência com a mesma placidez com que contempla um rio. Contar as histórias dos seres humanos, na sua variada e rica complexidade, é a missão que Paulo Coelho atribui à sua escrita, contando o que são e quem são, sem os prender àquilo que pretendem ou fingem ser. Quase como fotografias da vida, estas peças literárias são breves e intensas e revelam-nos pequenos momentos eternos de vidas de pessoas.

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world, and this tenth anniversary edition, with a new introduction from the author, will only increase that following. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

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 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. The overdose of sleeping pills she takes does not work, and she wakes up in Villete, the local asylum. 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 she starts to question all her ideas about life. Soon she comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Against all odds she finds herself falling in love and even wanting to live again!

The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho.The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor is a wealthy Russian businessman. His wife Ewa left him two years ago and Igor has never really come to terms with their break up, especially as Ewa is now remarried to a famous fashion designer, Hamid Hussein. Igor is insanely jealous and when Ewa left him he told her that he would destroy 'whole worlds' in order to get her back, and he intends to keep his promiseā¦Igor has followed Ewa and her new husband to Cannes and his plan is to cause as much violence and destruction as possible until Ewa realises how much he loves her and comes back to him. Ewa loved Igor but she was absolutely terrified of him. She knows that Igor has killed people in the past when he was a soldier, but she also knows a dark secret - that he once cold bloodedly murdered a beggar who was bothering them in a restaurant. Igor is clearly unhinged and he will stop at nothing to regain her love and so he goes on a ruthless killing spree until he tracks down Ewa...The star-studded film festival acts as a backdrop to Igor's maniacal murdering spree and we are ntroduced to various characters along the way, all of whom are desperately trying to get their big break in the shallow world of show business; Gabriela a young and naive actress who is being exploited by her agent and Jasmine a troubled young Rwandan refugee working as a model.The Winner Stands Alone is a gripping, fast-paced thriller, and Coelho cleverly weaves in elements of social satire, poking fun at our celebrity and money obsessed culture.

Un reconocido escritor de fama mundial descubre un día que su mujer, corresponsal de guerra, ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. ¿Ha sido secuestrada, víctima de un atentado o simplemente se sentía insatisfecha con su matrimonio? Cuando su ausencia se convierte en una obsesion, el narrador se propone encontrar las respuestas a todas las preguntas que se le han planteado, e inicia el camino hacia un destino desconocido.

O Vencedor Está Só é, segundo Paulo Coelho, uma fotografia do mundo em que vivemos. A acção, em ritmo acelerado, passa-se em 24 horas, durante o Festival de Cinema de Cannes. Mas não é a indústria cinematográfica que está em jogo para Igor Dalev, o empresário russo que chega à cidade francesa com a obsessão de recuperar Ewa, o grande amor da sua vida. Para chamar a atenção da ex-mulher, Igor transforma-se num assassino em série. Em torno desta mente doentia estão produtores, actores consagrados, candidatas a actriz, top models e estilistas, num retrato impiedoso da Superclasse, a elite, da elite que define o rumo da vida dos nossos dias. Transmitindo ao leitor pormenores de como vivem e se comportam as personagens baseadas na vida real, Paulo Coelho faz do seu romance não só um testemunho da crise de valores de um universo centrado nas aparências mas, acima de tudo, um thriller que se lê de um só fôlego.