Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self-discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet ...
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Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self-discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, Paulo decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal-the woman he loved 500 years before-an encounter that will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space, through past and present, in search of himself. Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our sins; a search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life.
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This is a deeply unpleasant novel, the first of the author's that I have read, and probably the last. Human relationships, primarily it seems heterosexual ones, are drained of a contemporary context and recast instead as refractions of former lives. One can self-time-warp back to whenever it is by standing near the junction between railway carriages or by imagining oneself to jiggle hula-hoops up and down one's body, sort of Paul Daniels' assistant on LSD. Back then, the narrator presided over the religious torture and slaughter of young women, which gives the author the opportunity for gratuitous Mills & Boon style soft-core sadism, which he attempts to justify by co-opting shamans to his tawdry and moneygrubbing purposes. It's all about him anyway, an egomaniac who never tires of signing his own books at every stop on his long and tedious trundle across the tundra to Vladivostok aboard the trans-Siberian express while practising his own form of selfish Tantric mind-sex with a violin-playing nymphomanic who if she had had half a personality would have settled his nonsense with a meat-cleaver well before they got to Novosibirsk. Coelho at one point has the temerity to suggest that Lenin (he'd just spotted a statue) would have done better to spread a form of universal love rather than try to better the lot of the working class. Oh yes? So the rest of the world, and western Europe in particular, would have been able to withstand Hitler if the Red Army had not (as Winston Churchill put it) 'torn the guts out of the Nazi war machine'? And how would the faux-spiritual Mr Coelho have tried to do that? With hula-hoops perhaps?
