The Alchemist is a book about transforming our power of dreams into reality and listening to our hearts.
Title of the book
The Alchemist: A fable about following your dreams
Writer: Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho is a novel writer from Brazil. Who is known for his novels like, Eleven minutes (2013), Veronica decides to Die and the most popular, The ALCHEMIST is his best selling book of all time as around 35 million copies are sold and this book is the most translated in the world by a living author.
Summary :
The Alchemist is the most engaging and really inspiring book by Paulo Coelho. The story in the alchemist is about a shepherd boy named Santiago, who is from Spain. The boy had a dream of a buried treasure in the pyramids of Egypt and then the boy travels from Spain to the Egyptian desert to find the treasure.
In this journey to the treasure, he found many interesting personalities or characters like the gypsy women, the king, the tribal leader, and many others are the people who help him find his answers and take him closer to his destiny.
The boy doesn’t know if someday he will be able to find treasure or not but he is going to follow his dream and take it as his destiny to find the treasure. In this journey, he lived with a tribe where he learned many things and the man alchemist. The Alchemist helped him and answered his questions and started finding treasure with the boy.
The Shepherd boy learned many things from the people he met on this journey and remember their advice and in the end he comes to know about his goodness and soul of the world from the Alchemist.
I have read this book and found it very interesting and one of the magical books to learn many things and lessons. I would suggest this book to everyone,who is finding a good read.