保罗·柯艾略,1947出生于巴西里约热内卢。少年时代,因叛逆,被视为精神疾病受到三次电击治疗;青年时代,因反对政治独裁,被投进监狱;1986年,38岁的他踏上去往圣城圣地亚哥之路,心灵顿悟。
从1987年的《朝圣》开始,18部作品以68种文字出版、655个版本全球在160多个国家和地区出版发行,销售总量超过1亿册,荣获国际大奖无数,被誉为“唯一能够与马尔克斯比肩,拥有最多读者的拉美作家”。
柯艾略以博大悲悯的心胸、奇绝独特的视角、清澈如水的文字,将哲学沉思、宗教奇迹、童话寓言熔为一体,感动了全球上至各国政要、国际巨星,下至平民百姓、贩夫走卒在内的数以亿计的读者,甚至目不识丁的人,也对他的文字世界无限神往。2007年,由于其作品的深远影响力,联合国聘请他为联合国和平大使。
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 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, Veronkia 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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