Paulo Coelho

The Witch of Portobello (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello'.

This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all - parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband.

The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs...

Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure.

Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007379934
• Artikelnr.: 39950316

Autorenporträt

Paulo Coelho is the author of The Alchemist, he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Paulo Coelho has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2007 and this has allowed him to continue to promote intercultural dialogue and to focus on the needs of children. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the recipient of over 115 awards and honours, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Grinzane Cavour Book Award and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur, to name a few.

Other titles include: The Pilgrimage, Brida, The Valkyries, The Fifth Mountain, Manual of the Warrior of Light, Veronika Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, Eleven Minutes, The Zahir, Like the Flowing River, The Witch of Portobello, The Winner Stands Alone, Aleph.

Boris Buzin, Kazakhstan © Paulo Coelho

Rezensionen

"Another uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable." - Publishers Weekly
"The Brazilian-born author of "The Alchemist" returns with this masterly novel about Athena, the illegitimate daughter of a Transylvanian gypsy adopted by well-to-do Lebanese parents." - Seattle Times
"Spiritualists and wanderlusts will eagerly devour The Alchemist author's firey diatribes about love, fear and the search for all things meaningful." - Washington Post
"Like his other novels, Paulo Coelho's latest, "The Witch of Portobello," is an incredibly beautiful read...vast skill..." - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
"We fell in love with The Devil and Miss Prym and believe the author's use of different voices contributing to the story line in this new novel [The Witch of Portobello] even surpasses that beautiful read...It's a very fast read. I'm a slow reader, but I read this spellbinding masterpiece in two nights. I think the magical, lyrical and fascinating Athena will immediately become literature's first lady!" --Jake Reiss of Alabama Booksmith as quoted in Publishers Weekly - Publishers Weekly
"[Coelho's] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers....In the memoirs, and in the introductions to his novels, he emphasizes his own flaws and failures, forgives himself for them, and, by extension, forgives his readers theirs. Coelho's plots tend to be allegorical, and his readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books....The writing is unadorned and pleasant to read..." - The New Yorker