Paulo Coelho

"Un hombre y una mujer, motivados por una búsqueda espiritual viajan hacia la aridez y el supuesto vacío del desierto de Mojave. A lo largo de cuarenta días, rodeados de dudas y tentaciones, entrarán en contacto con sus más íntimos conflictos y cuestionamientos. Paulo Coelho advierte que éste ha sido un libro díficil de escribir porque revela episodios y sentimientos de su propio vida; porque dudaba poder narrar esta historia y porque marca...

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 Elysees, and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari's voice through...

An Andalusian shepherd boy, named Santiago, travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of 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. What starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within.

If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey...

Anotación de Editor: En su nueva novela, Paulo Coelho, el autor de gran éxito de ventas del Alquimista y el Adulterio, trae a la vida a una de las mujeres más enigmáticas de la historia: Mata Hari. La historia de ella famoso la vida aún misteriosa como un bailarín exótico y la cortesana, y su ejecución polémica como un espía durante la Primera guerra mundial se revela como una narrativa de la primera persona fascinante de autocreación y...

Publisher Annotation: In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfill, that a life constricted...

Once minutos is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer..." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome...