Paulo Coelho, Author , trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-052797-6
This companion volume to Coelho's popular The Alchemist
is an odd hybrid—a self-help manual with fictional overtones; a series of aphorisms and platitudes set within the frame of the sketchiest of parables. In the parable, a boy meets a...
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Paulo Coelho, trans. from the Portuguese by Zoe Perry. Knopf, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3206-6
Coelho's striking novel about Margaretha Zelle, aka Mata Hari, the Dutch courtesan and "exotic" dancer who was executed in 1917 for treason and in all likelihood was innocent, unfolds through letters to her lawyer that she hopes will be given to her
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Paulo Coelho, Author Grijalbo $15.48 (0p) ISBN 978-970-05-1297-6
Acclaimed Brazilian author Coelho presents the third title in a trilogy that began with the novels A orillas del Rio Piedra me sent y llore (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Planeta, 1998) and Veronika decide morir (Veronika Decides to...
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Paulo Coelho, Author HarperCollins $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-019612-7
The bestselling Brazilian author of The Alchemist delicately etches this morose but ultimately uplifting story of the suicidal Veronika, who creeps along the boundary between life and death, sanity and madness, happiness and despair. Veronika, 24,...
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Paulo Coelho, Author , trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-058927-1
"Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria"—thus begins Coelho's latest novel, a book that cannot decide whether it wants to be fairy tale or saga of sexual discovery, so ends up satisfying the demands of neither. In...
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Paulo Coelho, Author , trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-133880-9
Multimillion-seller Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym
, etc.) returns with another uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable. The Portobello of the title is London's Portobello Road, where Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, finds...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperCollins $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-082521-8
The press chat cites 65 million copies of Coelho's eight previous novels in print, making the Brazilian author one of the world's bestselling novelists (150 countries and 56 languages). This book, whose title means "the present" or &#
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Paulo Coelho. Knopf, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-34983-3
A self-help sheen hangs over this book by the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist, which reads much more like a collection of bland aphorisms than a work of fiction. It is Jerusalem, the year 1099, and as French soldiers prepare to...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Harper $24.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-06-157893-9
A young Dublin woman searches for her soul mate in this murky spiritual quest from popular bestselling Brazilian novelist Coelho (The Witch of Portobello
), first published in 1990 and available in English in the U.S. for the first time. Brida O'
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator Harper $25.99 (343p) ISBN 978-0-06-175044-1
Spanning 24 hours during the Cannes Film Festival, this scintillating parable about shallowness, greed and celebrity worship from international bestseller Coelho (""The Alchemist"") unsparingly examines the Superclass, the elite's elite, whose...
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Paulo Coelho, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Knopf, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-70018-6
In this chimerical tale, protagonist Paolo embarks on a journey to remedy his dissatisfaction with life, a frustration he feels despite enjoying the accoutrements of success. Given that his world includes clairvoyance, Divine Energy, and time-travel,
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Paulo Coelho, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Zoë Perry. Knopf, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-101-87408-0
Coelho’s disappointing new novel suffers from its lead character’s navel-gazing. After an interview subject reveals his thoughts about living a passionate life to buttoned-up Linda, a 30-something journalist, mother, and wife to a loving, wealthy...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Alan R. Clarke, Translator HarperOne $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-251398-4
Before James Redfield there was Coelho, whose fiction laden with spiritual messages has proved more popular overseas than here. (The Alchemist, first published in Brazil in 1988 and here in 1993, glanced PW's paperback bestseller list but has sold...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Alan R. Clarke, Translator HarperOne $23.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-250217-9
This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Amanda Hopkinson, Translator, Nick Caistor, Translator . HarperCollins $24.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-06-052799-0
New to the U.S. but first published in Europe in 1992, Coelho's latest (following the bestselling The Zahir
) is an old school parable of good and evil. When a stranger enters the isolated mountain town of Viscos with the devil literally by his...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Linda Emond, Performed by , read by Linda Emond. HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-167255-2
Coelho’s brilliant tale of young Brida, an Irish girl who wishes to become a witch, is a compelling and vivid fantasy epic. Sadly, narrator Linda Emond’s uninspired and monotonous reading is a disservice to this fantastic tale. Though...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Paul Boehmer, Performed by , read by Paul Boehmer. Harper Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-177052-4
Coelho's latest blends spiritual allegory with elements of a thriller and does not lend itself to an easy audio production. Paul Boehmer singlehandedly tackles a cast of characters with a wide spectrum of languages and ethnic identities. The...
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Paulo Coelho, Author, Jeremy Irons, Read by , read by Jeremy Irons. Harper Audio $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-52447-1
Brazilian writer Coelho has published five titles in 45 languages in 120 countries, and has sold 23 million books. It's easy to see why. This charming, simple and well-written allegory tells of a boy, Santiago, who has the imagination and...
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Paulo Coelho, trans. from the Portuguese by Eric M.B. Becker. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-5256-5561-9
Drawing on his own past experiences, Coelho (The Alchemist) tells the story of a young man named Paulo exploring love, spirituality, and the world during the 1960s in this uninspired novel. Paulo, an aspiring writer born in Brazil, hitchhikes his...
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Paulo Coelho, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. HarperOne, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06334-6543
Novelist Coelho (The Pilgrimage) gathers an eclectic array of the parables, musings, and ephemera he published from 1993 to 1994 in a daily column for the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Inspired by Pablo Picasso (“God is an artist.... He...
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Paulo Coelho. Knopf, $21 (160p) ISBN 978-0-5933-1827-0
Coelho (The Alchemist) returns with the jaunty story of a master archer who dispenses philosophical advice. Using a fablelike framework, Coelho spools out short chapters that are interspersed with simple but evocative artwork. The story begins as a...
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