Twenty-three-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for. She goes to popular night spots, dates attractive men, and has a caring family. Yet something is lacking in her life. So on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die.
After she awakens from an overdose, Veronika finds she has only days to live. The story follows Veronika through those intense days as, to her own surprise, she finds herself drawn into the enclosed world of the local hospital she is staying in. In this heightened state she experiences things she has never allowed herself to feel: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. Gradually she, discovers that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying.
Paulo Coelho’s Veronica Decides to Die, based on his own moving personal experience, is about people who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. It is about madness and the need to find an alternative way of living for people who face prejudices because they think in a different way.
In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho invites the reader to discover the world that lies outside the routine and addresses the fundamental question asked by millions: “what am I doing here today?” and “why do I go on living?”
- Publisher: Harper Collins USA
- Published: 01 July 2005
- Format: Paperback 210 pages
- ISBN 13: 9780061015014
- ISBN 10: 0061015016
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Also in Hardback
- Publisher: Harper
- Published: 16 May 2000
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
- ISBN 13: 9780060196127
- ISBN 10: 0060196122
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