![]() She imbibes every quality and vice of the 21 st century generation. ![]() The reader is effortlessly taken into the realms of Sufism, astral travel, psychiatry, metaphysics and a storyline that ties it all together–the girl who tries to die. Not many can maintain the pace after this, but Coelho does it brilliantly. Ten pages into the book, Veronika attempts suicide. The book starts out dramatically as Veronika sits with ‘four packs of sleeping pills’. He takes the readers into a mental asylum and inside the heads of the ‘so called’ mad men through the eyes of a girl, Veronika, the protagonist. The author gives an insight into the metaphysical concept of astral projection and, at the same time, deals with a subject that is very personal to him–madness. This time he kills two birds with one stone. ![]() Thankfully, what’s inside the book doesn’t disappoint either.įrom alchemy to adultery, the author has a knack for dealing with sensitive subjects. ![]() When you pick a book written by Paulo Coelho, you already have high hopes, and Veronika Decides To Die has you hooked the moment you lay your eyes on it. ![]() Veronika Decides To Die is a quirky title, which pulls you in enough to pick up the book and start reading. Someone said, don’t judge a book by its cover, but no one said anything about judging a book by its title. ![]()
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