VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE  (English, Paperback, Paulo Coelho)

Veronika Decides To Die is about a young girl named Veronika who has everything that she could ever dream or ask for. However, this is not enough to keep her happy and she takes the extreme step of deciding to die. 

Summary of the Book

Veronika is a young and beautiful girl who has everything that she could possibly want. She has many boyfriends, a good and steady job, and a family that loves her. Still, she is unhappy and does not see life as worth living. She wakes up one morning and decided that she is going to die and that would solve all her problems. The young lady takes an overdose of sleeping pills. She wakes up to find herself in a hospital room. Here, she is informed that there has been much damage caused to her heart and she has only a few days left to live. The rest of the story follows the last few days of Veronika where she starts to experience and feel things like she has never before. She starts to falls in love and is desperate to stay alive.

About Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. He had previously worked as a composer, journalist and as an author and director for the theatre, all of which happened before he dedicated his life to writing books. His works have been published in over 168 countries and have been translated into more than 80 other languages. Coelho’s major success, The Alchemist, remains to be the highest selling book ever written by a Brazilian. Paulo was chosen to the Brazilian Academy of Letters in the year 2002. In the year 2007, he was named as a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Some his other notable works are Eleven Minutes, Veronika Decides to Die, Like the Flowing River, Manuscript Found in Accra, and Brida.