Paulo Coelho

The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace. • "A novelist who writes in a universal language." —Los Angeles Times
 
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee...

A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her adolescence....

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 fulfil, that a life constricted by fear of rejection...

A wife and mother in her thirties works through midlife apathy by engaging in a passionate affair with a successful politician who was once her high-school sweetheart.

"Del reconocido autor Paulo Coelho, llega una inspiradora fábula sobre un joven buscando la sabiduría de uno de sus mayores, y las enseñanzas que este le imparte en el camino. En El arquero conocemos a Tetsuya, un antiguo prodigio del arco y la flecha que ahora se encuentra retirado de la vida pública, así como al joven que viene en su búsqueda. El chico tiene muchas preguntas, y mientras las contesta, Tetsuya ilustra el camino del arco y los...