SynopsisThe Alchemist is an effortless and straightforward story based on the life of an Andalusian guy named Santiago. He is a shepherd who is day long engaged in and around his sheep. He persistently gets a dream about a treasure kept for him at the Pyramids of Egypt. He believes in the dream as diligently as if some prediction has been made to him. He approaches a vagabond, regarding the same for a piece of advice. The vagabond makes him believe that the dream indeed is true and insists on him to go to Egypt. Santiago embarks on his journey searching for the treasure, oblivious of the situations and experiences to be thrown at him by life. Initially, he meets an old man who pretends to be a king. He advises Santiago to continuously seek for premonitions and see them as signals from the Universe.
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About the author
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.
