The Alchemist

The Alchemist, Gift ed--------------------------------------------------My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told thealchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell yourheart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives ofits readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a millionand a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has alreadyestablished itself as a modern classic, universally admired. PauloCoelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time,will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generationsto come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusianshepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure asextravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys tothe markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fatefulencounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiagofinds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, aboutthe essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read theomens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.