Book description
"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.
