Bøker av Paulo Coelho

"The Devil and Miss Prym is a simple tale, with the meaning of life and spiritual guidance at its core."-- The GuardianA community divided by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man haunted by the ghost of a painful past. A young woman in search of happiness. Seven days, a short period during which good and evil will wage a decisive battle, and each character will decide on which of the two sides they belong. The small village of Viscos is the setting for this disturbing fight. With the arrival of a foreigner, the entire town becomes an accomplice in a perverse plot that will forever mark the history of its inhabitants.The foreigner has traveled from far away and needs to find the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? At once an evocative novel and a suspenseful page-turner, The Devil and Miss Prym captures one moment in our eternal struggle for self-knowledge, asking a question that all of us have stopped to reflect on at some point: What is the essence of the human being?

"Superabundant talent, stunning originality, an elegant way with words... The Zahir is something more."-- Los Angeles TimesThe narrator of The Zahr is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.A haunting and redemptive story about obsession, The Zahir explores its potential to fulfill our dreams, and to destroy them.

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come.The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist.The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

"The book casts a curiously sweet spell." - Entertainment WeeklyEleven Minutes tells 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, yet ends up working as a prostitute.In Geneva, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria must choose between pursuing a path of darkness--sexual pleasure for its own sake--or risking everything to find her own inner light and the possibility of true love.

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its simplicity and wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who 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. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a meditation on the treasures found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is art eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

En anerkjent forfatter oppdager at kona hans, en krigskorrespondent, er sporløst forsvunnet. Etter som tida går, oppnår han mer suksess og opplever kjærligheten på nytt, men han er stadig fascinert av hennes fravær. Ble hun kidnappet eller utpresset, eller var hun simpelthen lei av ekteskapet deres? Hans søken etter henne og etter sannheten om sitt eget liv fører han ut på ei reise til Sør-Amerika, Spania, Frankrike, Kroatia og til slutt til Sentral-Asia. Det fører også til at han får en ny forståelse av kjærlighetens natur, skjebnens makt og hva det virkelig betyr å følge sitt eget hjerte.

Profeten Elias mottar befaling fra Gud om å forlate Israel. Han kommer til en liten libanesisk landsby der han blir konfrontert med en ny kultur, og et folk som frykter krigen. I en verden av overtro, religiøse konflikter og dype tradisjoner, opplever Elias en rekke hendelser som fører ham til et direkte møte med Gud. Historien gir håp for det moderne mennesket, og den tar opp spørsmålet om skjebnen bestemmes av individet selv.

Pilar og følgesvennen hennes gjennomfører en mystisk reise over Pyreneene. De søker åndelig mening, og i sin søken etter Gud oppdager de også en dyp kjærlighet for hverandre. Sentralt i boka står budskapet om betydningen av å overgi seg betingelsesløst til denne kjærligheten.

Igor Malev er rik og tiltrekkende, men alt han tenker på er å vinne tilbake sin ekskone Ewa, som har forlatt ham til fordel for en vellykket motedesigner. Igor vet at paret vil være til stede ved den glamorøse filmfestivalen i Cannes. Han reiser etter dem og setter i sving en voldelig 24-timers aksjon for å nå sitt mål. Igor er en sjeldent intens mann med kjølig intellekt, og dette skal ikke bli en ordinær gjenforening.

This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world; and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world, and how to pray to the moon. As Brida seeks her destiny, she struggles to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to become a witch. This enthralling novel incorporates themes that fans of Paulo Coelho will recognize and treasure?it is a tale of love, passion, mystery, and spirituality from the master storyteller.