The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Author - Paulo Coelho

Publisher - Harper Collins

Pub Date - 1988

Length - 224 pages

Summary :-

There was a sheperd named Santiago who lived in Andalucia Spain. He loved to travel and always use to take his sheeps with him and sold wool for money.

One day he decided to go to Tarifa to sell wool to a merchant. It became dark before he reachs the village so he keeps his sheeps in an empty church and sleep under the tree for a night. In his sleep he dreams that a small boy was playing with his sheeps and take him to pyramids in Egyptian dessert , where the boy tells him, here is your treasure, the movement he was about to tell the location Santiago wakes up. He becomes restless as this had been occured to him many times before.

Santiago wanted to know the truth so next day he realize that there was a woman in Tarifa who can solve his mystery.

The woman agrees to tell him the meaning of his dream but demands the one tenth of the treasure. Santiago agrees to give her so.

He starts his journey for the treasure. The people he meets along the way.The things he learns, are life changing.

My thought :

This book can change the lives of readers forever. " The Alchemist " teaches to listen to your heart , read the omens strewn along life's path and the most important- follow your dreams. With Paulo Coelho, vision of spiritual, magical realism and motivation of chasing your dreams no matter what. " The Alchemist " deserves a place on your bookshelf for sure !

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