Informationen zum Autor Paulo Coelho is an international bestselling author whose books--The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and The Fifth Mountain-have sold more than 23 million copies in 117 countries and have been translated into 41 languages. Klappentext "A story that exists in that magical space where belief becomes truth, where metaphor becomes experience" Pen with Paper A magical true story about forgiving our past and believing in our future from Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist . The enchanting true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro, when Coelho hands his mysterious spiritual teacher J. the only copy of his manuscript of The Alchemist . Haunted by a devastating curse, he confesses: "I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them." J.'s response is a challenge: find and speak with your guardian angel. "The curse can be broken if you complete the task." So Paulo and his wife Cristina drop everything and drive into the Mojave Desert for forty days. What they find there is stranger than either expected: a band of women who ride motorcycles through the desert, call themselves the Valkyries, and claim to speak with God. Their fierce leader tells Coelho that reaching his angel will require breaking a pact, accepting forgiveness, and making a bet. All three will cost him something. A masterful blend of exotic landscape, dramatic adventure, and the magical storytelling for which Coelho is renowned The Valkyries is one of his most intimate and memorable works. Zusammenfassung When You Love, You Change the World Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this touching story about his confrontation with his past. In The Valkyries , Paulo and his wife, Cristina, embark on a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, where they encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and stark storytelling for which Coelho's fictional works are renowned, this true-life odyssey is at once a modern-day adventure story and a poignant message about letting go of the past and believing in the future. ...

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Paulo Coelho is an international bestselling author whose books--The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept and The Fifth Mountain-have sold more than 23 million copies in 117 countries and have been translated into 41 languages.

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"A story that exists in that magical space where belief becomes truth, where metaphor becomes experience" — Pen with Paper

A magical true story about forgiving our past and believing in our future — from Paulo Coelho, the internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist.

The enchanting true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro, when Coelho hands his mysterious spiritual teacher J. the only copy of his manuscript of The Alchemist. Haunted by a devastating curse, he confesses: "I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them." J.'s response is a challenge: find and speak with your guardian angel. "The curse can be broken — if you complete the task."

So Paulo and his wife Cristina drop everything and drive into the Mojave Desert for forty days. What they find there is stranger than either expected: a band of women who ride motorcycles through the desert, call themselves the Valkyries, and claim to speak with God. Their fierce leader tells Coelho that reaching his angel will require breaking a pact, accepting forgiveness, and making a bet. All three will cost him something.

A masterful blend of exotic landscape, dramatic adventure, and the magical storytelling for which Coelho is renowned — The Valkyries is one of his most intimate and memorable works.

Zusammenfassung

When You Love, You Change the World

Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this touching story about his confrontation with his past. In The Valkyries, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, embark on a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, where they encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and stark storytelling for which Coelho’s fictional works are renowned, this true-life odyssey is at once a modern-day adventure story and a poignant message about letting go of the past and believing in the future.