Advantages: Interesting idea and story Disadvantages: probably much deeper than I read it to be
The Witch of Portabello by Paul Coelho Paul Coelho was born in Brazil in 1949. He always wanted an artistic career but his father was an engineer and thought his ideas of being a writer were a sign of mental instability. When he was only 17 his father put him in a mental institution for electroconvulsive therapy twice. He was sent there again after he became involved with a theatre group and was working as a journalist. Despite this difficult start ... ...written after he had walked the Santiago de Compostello pilgrimage trial in Northern Spain, the book was called ‘The Pilgrimage’. His next book was ‘The Alchemist’ which was not an immediate success on first printing but became a best seller at its next publication. ‘The witch of Portabella’ is an exploration of “ How can we find the courage to be true to ourselves – even if we are unsure of who we are? It is essentially the story of a young girl ...
catsholiday 25.04.2009
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Advantages: still looking for some Disadvantages: Haven't found any u to now
The Brazilian author Paulo Coelho (born in 1947) has been after me for a while, I can’t enter a German bookshop without seeing piles of his books, all in the bestseller section, when browsing on the British or German Amazon, it doesn’t take long until I come across one of his books, and dooyoo has listed 16 of his books for which 40 reviews have been written up to now. At last I’ve surrendered, I didn’t buy his first and most successful novel, The ... ...Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, aka The Witch, was born in Transsylvania to a single Gypsy mother who left her in an orphanage from where she’s been adopted by a well-to-do Lebanese couple. When war breaks out in Lebanon, they emigrate to London. Athena (as she’s mostly called) starts college but drops out, marries, has a son, divorces her husband and moves to Dubai. She discovers her spiritual side and after returning to London shares her discovery ...
MALU 17.05.2009
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Advantages: Great story Disadvantages: Can't put the book down
The Wich of Portobell by Paulo Coelho is yet another great book which i couldn't stop reading. The story is about a young woman called Athena or Sherine she has two names because one she was baptised with, the story is written into an interview with all the people that knew Athena well or they thought they did, all of the people give their opinions regarding Athena and how they met and what they did together.
Athena finds out after many years that ... ...Beruit to London due to the war breakout, Athena goes in search of a normal job but things change she met new people and in the end she was called The Wiich of Portobello.
This is a great story and yet again Paulo Coelho makes you think about life in depth and most importantly never to be scared to follow your destiny. A great book ...
funkysuperstar 03.11.2008
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