
Veronika Decides to Die
by Paulo Coelho
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Literary FictionMay 23, 2006en
"Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from i…
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