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Paulo had everything the world teaches us to call success. Until he discovered he had only forty days. On an ordinary Sunday in February, a heart attack drops him on the floor of the bakery where he is having breakfast with his family - and everything that seemed important loses its importance at once. In a hospital room, after surgery, Paulo receives a visit from a young stranger who introduces himself as his new ""assistant for special matters."" His name is Gabriel. And the offer is brutal: Paulo has forty days to say goodbye to the world. But he will not be alone. During those days, Gabriel walks Paulo through encounters that will change everything. Conversations with the brother he had pushed away out of pride. Journeys back in time to the harsh childhood of his mother in the Brazilian countryside. The night around the campfire with the quiet son he never knew how to listen to. The fifteenth-birthday party he would never live to see. The garden dinner that could have been served twenty years earlier. The letters that need to be written. The words that need to be said. And the great question he has avoided his whole life: who, in the end, paid the price of love for him? A Life in 40 Days is a novel about what remains of a person when they lose the ability to put things off. About the crooked embraces we carry across generations without knowing. About the silent prayers someone has been offering for us, year after year, without our ever knowing. About time - that little we always have, and that we tend to spend on everything except what matters. For readers of The Shack by William P. Young and Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, a moving debut novel by Eduardo Vieira - a book for anyone who still has time. However little.

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