Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788172235467
Description
A new novel from the internationally best-selling author of the Alchemist.
Veronika seems to have every thing she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of attractive boyfriends, goes dancing, has a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy; something is lacking in her life. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up sometime later in a local hospital There she is told that although she is alive now her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live.
This story follows Veronika through these intense days as her experience lead her to question the whole idea of what madness is, before she comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice that we all make between living and dying.
This is a moving and uplifting song to life, one that reminds us that every moment in our lives is special and precious.