Recueil de paraboles inspirées a l’auteur par les sources et les folklores les plus divers, Maktub représente un trésor coloré de sagesse. Ces textes courts sont nés d’une contribution de Paulo Coelho au quotidien brésilien Folha de Sao Paulo.

Maktub

One day, a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Was she kidnapped, blackmailed, or simply bored with their marriage? His search for her - and for the truth of his own life - takes him from France to Spain, Croatia and to Central Asia. This is a story of love, loss and passionate obsession.

THE ZAHIR

The new novel by the author of The Alchemist.

Aleph

In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.

Veronika décide de mourir

Dans son roman le plus autobiographique, Paulo Coelho nous fait revivre le rêve pacifiste de la génération hippie du début des années 1970. Paulo est un jeune homme aux cheveux longs qui souhaite devenir écrivain. Fuyant la dictature militaire brésilienne, il part faire le tour du monde à la recherche de liberté et de spiritualité. À Amsterdam, il rencontre Karla, qui n'attendait que lui pour la destination phare du mouvement hippie, le Népal, à bord du fameux «Magic Bus». Cette traversée de l'Europe sera le début d'une extraordinaire histoire d'amour et d'une quête de vérités intérieures qui les conduira à adopter un nouveau regard sur le monde. «Qui veut apprendre à se connaître commence par explorer le monde.»

Hippie

When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.  As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men.  But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs-Élysées, and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and paid the ultimate price.

L'espionne - le grand destin d'une femme libre

Nada mejor para empezar el año que esta colección de citas sobre el amor escritas por uno de los autores más queridos y leídos de nuestro tiempo, porque como el mismo autor afirma: «el amor es la esencia de la vida». La obra está ilustrada con los preciosos dibujos de la artista Catalina Estrada, inspirados en la exhuberante belleza de la naturaleza de su país natal, Colombia.«El amor nos redime a través de la entrega total», Paulo Coelho

Amor

Paulo Coelho, one of the world''s best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed ''the Witch of Portobello'', which was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller in hardback.  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.  Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice.

The Witch of Portobello

Les gens créent une réalité et ils en sont ensuite les victimes. Athéna s'est rebellée contre cela - et elle l'a payé très cher.

HERON RYAN, journaliste

Athéna m'a utilisée et manipulée, sans la moindre considération pour mes sentiments. Elle était ma maîtresse, chargée de transmettre les mystères sacrés, de réveiller la force inconnue que nous possédons tous. Quand nous nous aventurons sur cette mer inconnue, nous faisons confiance aveuglément à ceux qui nous guident - croyant qu'ils en savent plus que nous.

ANDREA MCCAIN, actrice de théâtre

Le grand problème d'Athéna, c'est qu'elle était la femme du XXIIe siècle, alors qu'elle vivait au XXIe - et qu'elle permettait à tous de le voir. L'a-t-elle payé ? Sans doute. Mais elle aurait payé bien plus cher si elle avait réprimé son exubérance. Elle aurait été amère, frustrée, toujours inquiète de « ce que les autres vont penser », disant toujours « laisse-moi résoudre d'abord ces problèmes, ensuite je me consacrerai à mon rêve », se plaignant sans cesse que « les conditions idéales ne se présentent jamais ».

DEIDRE O'NEILL, connue sous le nom d'Edda

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