Veronika decides to die : a novel of redemption
Coelho, Paulo.
Veronika decides to die : a novel of redemption / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. - 1st Harper Perennial ed. - New York : Harper Perennial, 2006. - 210, 20 p. ; 21 cm.
Previous ed.: 2001. Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
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.
9780061124266 (pbk.) 0061124265 (pbk.)
Young women--Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
Mental illness--Fiction.
READING IN ENGLISH
Psychological fiction.
PQ9698.13.O3546 / V4713 2006
869.3/42
Veronika decides to die : a novel of redemption / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. - 1st Harper Perennial ed. - New York : Harper Perennial, 2006. - 210, 20 p. ; 21 cm.
Previous ed.: 2001. Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.
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.
9780061124266 (pbk.) 0061124265 (pbk.)
Young women--Suicidal behavior--Fiction.
Mental illness--Fiction.
READING IN ENGLISH
Psychological fiction.
PQ9698.13.O3546 / V4713 2006
869.3/42
