The Alchemist
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream is also calledO Alquimista. It is a simple but unordinary story . The Alchemist, first published in 1988, is a modern classic that has been translated into sixty languages, read in over 150 counties and sold more than 30 million copies. The author Paulo Coelho was borned in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His books were translated into many different kinds of languages and were popular around the world.
The Alchemist begins at dusk. Santiago, a Shepard boy, is settling in for the night with his herd at an abandoned church with a half-destroyed roof and an enormous sycamore tree growing through it. That night, he has a dream about finding treasure near the Egyptian Pyramids.
His travels have brought him near a town where he hopes to reacquaint himself with a girl he met the previous year. He detours to Tarifa, a nearby village where he can shave, get a haircut, and meet with visit a gypsy who can interpret dreams. The gypsy and a mysterious old man claiming to be a king advise him to pursue the treasure.
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