Hippie
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Dans son roman le plus autobiographique, Paulo Coelho nous fait revivre le rêve transformateur et pacifiste de la génération hippie du début des années 1970.
Paulo est un jeune homme aux cheveux longs qui souhaite devenir écrivain. Fuyant la dictature militaire brésilienne, il part faire le tour du monde à la recherche de liberté et de spiritualité. À Amsterdam, il rencontre Karla, une jeune Hollandaise qui n’attendait que lui pour s’envoler vers la nouvelle destination phare du mouvement hippie, le Népal, à bord du fameux «Magic Bus».
Cette traversée de l’Europe sera le début d’une extraordinaire histoire d’amour et d’une quête de vérités intérieures qui les conduiront, eux et leurs compagnons de voyage, à adopter un nouveau regard sur le monde.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drawing on his own past experiences, Coelho (The Alchemist) tells the story of a young man named Paulo exploring love, spirituality, and the world during the 1960s in this uninspired novel. Paulo, an aspiring writer born in Brazil, hitchhikes his way through Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina before deciding to head for Amsterdam, where he has heard of a new movement of love and sexual liberation. There Paulo meets Karla, and they begin the first tentative steps toward the lasting love that Karla desperately seeks. Karla, meanwhile, is planning a trip to Nepal to pursue her own spiritual liberation. After Paulo agrees to go with her, they set out on a bus with like-minded travelers and meet a variety of personalities all of whom have a story to tell and life lessons to impart leading to long tangents about life, love, and the spiritual motivations that inspired his years of traveling. Coelho never quite brings the reader in to the main characters' experiences and lives, but some of the narrative side trips are worth taking. The author's most ardent fans will enjoy this, but readers looking for an immersive tale with fully formed characters will be disappointed.
