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Overview"""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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paulo CoelhoPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Imprint: HarperCollins Dimensions: Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 13.60cm Weight: 0.222kg ISBN: 9780061122415ISBN 10: 0061122416 Pages: 197 Publication Date: 25 April 2006 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9780062315007 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAs memorable and meaningful as Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince. -- Austin American-Statesman Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |