

A few let the question go unanswered and live for the moment, regardless on the results or the consequences.”

Other despair and spend their lives and their money trying to grasp the meaning of it all. Why are we here? Many think they’ve found the answer in religion or in materialism. >“Right now, while we’re here eating, ninety-nine per cent of the people on this planet are, in their own way, struggling with that very question. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one” All wines should be tasted some should only be sipped, but others drink the whole bottle” >“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. >“Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.” She will discover, along with the reader, that love is the only way to reach the spiritual world and that it transforms us because when we love we want to be better than we are. In order to do this the girl must overcome a series of obstacles which make her change her concept of life. At the age of twenty one, Brida meets a Mage, whom she asks to help change her into a witch.

Brida is a novel based on a true story of captivating beauty, that of the Irish girl, Brida O’Fern. He has been published in many different countries in 60 different languages.īrida, a spectaular and very successful novel. With these, Paulo Coelho started on a road full of successes that earned him the title as one of the greatest living authors of our time. Among his first works are found such books as The Pilgrim from Compostela (Diary of a Mage) (1987) and The Alchemist (1988). Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, entered into the literary world as a script writer for the theatre, working simultaneously as a man of letters, journalist and script writer for Brazilian television.
