Author

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian writer and the author of The Alchemist. He writes parable novels about faith, fate and the search for one's own path.

Books in Livria

• The Fifth Mountain

  The young prophet Elijah flees Israel from the queen's wrath and finds shelter with a widow in a foreign Phoenician city. Waiting for him are a mountain no one returns from, love, and a war he cannot stop. This is a…

• The Pilgrimage

  Paulo has his sword taken away at the very moment he reaches for the reward. To get it back, he walks around seven hundred kilometres along the ancient pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela. His guide Petrus teaches…

• The Alchemist

  An Andalusian shepherd dreams again and again of a treasure by the Egyptian pyramids. He sells his sheep, loses all his money on the very first day in Africa, works for almost a year for a crystal merchant, crosses the…

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