This book is unlike other books I generally opt for. The author Paulo Coelho is the only reason I opted for this book. This time Coelho wrote something different, very sensual which surely not expected from him by many of his readers after reading ‘The Alchemist’ and he too knew that very well but he still went for this for only one reason to show the world reality this time and not only fairytale moments. He believes that we all have one foot in fairytale and the other in the abyss so he decided to keep it that way and gave something out of this world by this story.
While reading this book, I was unsure of putting this on my blog reviews for its sensual content but it has something out of this world which you can know only reading this book. It’s Paulo Coelho so surely you are connecting to the soul level and now it depends on you as a person how you conceive it.
The story is sensual, it talks about sex, pleasure and pain. How taboo the talk about sex in real world is! We never talked it out openly while it is the most natural thing.
About Author
The author Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is best known for his novel “The Alchemist”. Paulo Coelho’s life remains the primary source of inspiration for his books. He has flirted with death, escaped madness, dallied with drugs, withstood torture, experiment with magic and alchemy, studied philosophy and religion, read voraciously, lost and recovered his faith, and experienced the pain and pleasure of love. In searching for his own place in the world, he has discovered answers for the challenges that everyone faces. He believed that, within ourselves, we have the necessary strength to find our own destiny. Paulo Coelho’s books have been translated into 83 languages and have sold more than 320 million copies in more than 170 countries. In 2007, he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace.
About Book
This is a story of girl named Maria, like every other girl she had dreamt of finding love, getting married, having family and living life in her own paradise. But life is not a fairytale, her fantasy world collapsed in front of her eyes and life took an unpredictable turn and she had to choose, to back off and compromise her dreams or to have the courage to walk on the path she didn’t know where it would lead her. She chose the later and life taught her lesson hard ways by selling herself, she continued to go on for only reason, to survive and in the corner of her heart she still had hope for love. Did she survive? Did she find true love?
In her journey she came across things which are unusual, learnt about men and their psychology, discovered and experienced things out of this world, saw her inner light, learnt about true love and freedom, pain and pleasure, connected to soul level through sex. This is bold topic to bring on and not everyone can talk in depth and clean way the writer did. Coelho is a magician when it comes to connecting to the deep level with his fiction stories. You surely getting something out of his fiction stories, sometimes, courage, strength, hope, love, freedom, and your inner light you couldn’t see!
Quoting favorite lines from the book.
” I can choose either to be victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”
“Perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.”
“That’s what world is like as if they knew everything, but if you dare to ask a question, they don’t know anything.”
“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write and write about love – otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”
“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie; freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”
“That is the true experience of freedom; having the most important thing in the world without owing it.”
“You have a glow about you. The light that comes from sheer willpower, the light of someone who has made important sacrifices in the name of things she things are important. It’s in your eyes – the light is in your eyes.”
“Passion sends us signals that guide us through our lives, and it’s up to me to interpret those signs.”
“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know.”
“Don’t ask me: why me? What’s so special about me? There isn’t special about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet – and here’s the mystery of life – I can’t think of anything else.”
“Instead of buying something that you would like to have, I’m giving you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift.”
“The majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception.”
“The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.”
“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
“A woman knows when a man is important to her. Are men capable of that kind of realization?”
“The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and, above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness, the courage to go beyond what people conventionally call “making love”.”
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