Veronika decides to die / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Publication details: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: 210 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0061124265
- 9780061124266
- Veronika decide morrer. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A highly original, moving, and ultimately life-affirming book." - Sunday Mirror (London)
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything - youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting to never wake up. But she does--at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live.
Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold 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.
"Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.