A man sets out on a journey, dreaming of a beautiful or magical place, in pursuit of some unknown treasure. Why? Because it was me in there, all of me, heart and soul. I was forty-one and desperate.īut I never lost faith in the book or ever wavered in my vision. They wiped their hands of the project and let me take the book with me. My original publisher decided to cut me loose and cancelled our contract. By the end of the year, it was clear to everyone that The Alchemist wasn’t working. It took another six months for the bookseller to unload a second copy-and that was to the same person who bought the first! And who knows how long it took to sell the third. A bookseller in the northeast corner of the country told me that only one person purchased a copy the first week of its release. When The Alchemist was first published twenty-five years ago in my native Brazil, no one noticed. Read the forward from the 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coelho’s international bestseller ‘The Alchemist’ to learn why the renowned author wrote the book and how he feels about its enduring popularity.
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