A stranger arrives in a small mountain village, with a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. Befriending a local woman, Miss Prym, he sets a moral challenge from which the town may never recover.

THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM

Fifth mountain

Le pelerin de compostelle (edition illustree)

In this stunning novel, Coelho's unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.

 A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars.

 Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village - Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil.

 A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.

The Devil and Miss Prym

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.In his most personal novel to date, internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, his only real option is to begin again—to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him.Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian railroad, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion. Even so, he never expects to meet Hilal. A gifted young violinist, she is the woman Paulo loved five hundred years before—and the woman he betrayed in an act of cowardice so far-reaching that it prevents him from finding real happiness in this life. Together they will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, traveling a path that teaches love, forgiveness, and the courage to overcome life’s inevitable challenges. Beautiful and inspiring, Aleph invites us to consider the meaning of our own personal journeys.

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

Sur le point de devenir mère, une jeune femme part en quête de sa propre génitrice, une Tzigane roumaine auréolée de mystère.
Au début du XX? siècle, une danseuse de cabaret s'impose rapidement comme l'une des courtisanes les plus admirées du Tout-Paris et use de ses charmes pour devenir l'espionne la plus célèbre de tous les temps.
Une jeune Brésilienne tombée dans la prostitution par amour chemine lentement vers la réconciliation du corps et de l'esprit jusqu'à reprendre goût à la vie, à ses plaisirs et à ses émotions.
À travers ses livres, Paulo Coelho s'est souvent attaché à donner une voix aux femmes. Qu'elles soient sorcières, prostituées ou courtisanes, souvent fières et victorieuses, toujours aimantes, elles sont au coeur de son travail et de sa réflexion.
Cette trilogie, qui comprend La sorcière de Portobello, L'espionne et Onze minutes, leur rend hommage.

Le choeur des puissantes : la sorcière de Portobello - l'espionne - onze minutes

Brida est une jeune Irlandaise aux pouvoirs surnaturels, qui se lance dans une quête effrénée de sagesse et de magie. Des personnages envoûtants et mystérieux l'aideront à découvrir le monde qui l'entoure tout en se découvrant elle-même. Ce roman enchanté renoue avec des thèmes chers à Paulo Coelho où se mêlent passion, mystère et spiritualité.

Brida

Paulo Coelho La Cinquième Montagne Neuf siècles avant notre ère, Dieu ordonne au prophète Elie de quitter Israël, tombé au pouvoir des rois  impies. Son chemin le mène en Phénicie, dans la cité de Sarepta assiégée par les Assyriens. Là, il perdra  tout, notamment celle qu'il aime. Et il se révoltera contre Dieu. Pourquoi le mal, la tragédie, la souffrance ? A cette question éternelle de l'humanité, un ange donnera la réponse. Elie pourra alors regagner son pays et mener le combat contre Achab et Jézabel, adorateurs du dieu Baal.
Se fondant sur des fragments de la Bible, Paulo Coelho développe ici les thèmes qui ont valu à L'Alchimiste, à Sur le bord de la rivière Piedra je me suis assise et j'ai pleuré et au Pèlerin de Compostelle un succès mondial : le sens que chacun doit donner à sa vie, la persévérance avec laquelle il faut suivre sa Légende personnelle, la nécessité de comprendre que la tragédie n'est pas une punition, mais un défi à relever.

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