The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho sports the miraculous and the disastrous

the miraculous and the disastrous

or is thinking of becoming a parent’ Financial Times

’ Kate McClymont

and compulsively readable

and people striving to get by

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho sports the miraculous and the disastrousA magical little volume.San Francisco Chronicle Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. The Alchemist is the story of Santiago, an Audalusian shepherd boy who travels in search of a worldly treasure. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds