Aleph

Paulo Coelho

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 26, 2012 - Fiction - 288 pages

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.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 19
• Section 3: 32
• Section 4: 42
• Section 5: 60
• Section 6: 69
• Section 7: 78
• Section 8: 113
• Section 9: 122
• Section 10: 131
• Section 11: 139
• Section 12: 159
• Section 13: 166
• Section 14: 173
• Section 15: 207
• Section 16: 216
• Section 17: 230
• Section 18: 242
• Section 19: 252
• Section 20: 258
• Section 21: 268
• Section 22: 271

About the author

PAULO COELHO is the author of many international best sellers, including The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes, The Pilgrimage, The Fifth Mountain, and Adultery, among others. He has been a member of the Academy of Letters of Brazil since 2002 and in 2007 was named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations. In 2003, he received the Guinness World Record for most translations of a single title (The Alchemist) signed by the author in one sitting and several years later, in 2009, he received a new Guinness World Record for most translated author for the same book (also for The Alchemist).
 
Paulo Coelho’s books have been translated into 88 languages and have sold more than 320 million copies in more than 170 countries. His novel, The Alchemist, one of the most influential books of all time, has sold more than 85 million copies and has been cited as an inspiration by people as diverse as Malala Yousafzai and Pharrell Williams. He has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, to name a few.
 
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Bibliographic information

• Title: Aleph; Vintage International
• Author: Paulo Coelho
• Translated by: Margaret Jull Costa
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012
• ISBN: 0307744574, 9780307744579
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical