Aleph
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Aleph Décider. Changer. Se réinventer. Agir. Expérimenter. Réussir. Oser. Rêver. Gagner. Découvrir. Éloigner. S'engager. Penser. Croire. Grandir. Appartenir. S'éveiller. Nous avons parfois besoin de redonner un sens à notre vie, de lui rendre souffle et équilibre. Et si un livre en avait le pouvoir ? Et si, grâce à la magie des mots et d'une histoire, vous commenciez un nouveau chapitre de votre vie ? Aleph est ce livre. Aleph est un voyage qui pourrait bien changer votre existence.
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In this chimerical tale, protagonist Paolo embarks on a journey to remedy his dissatisfaction with life, a frustration he feels despite enjoying the accoutrements of success. Given that his world includes clairvoyance, Divine Energy, and time-travel, Paolo's is not the usual existential crisis. His present-day troubles, in fact, can be traced to betrayals during a previous incarnation that took place during the Inquisition. When he encounters Hilal, a woman he wronged, complications arise from their shared experience in The Aleph: "the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time." Given the couple's history, Paolo's response is curiously practical and distant: "reopening old wounds is neither easy nor particularly important. The only justification is that the knowledge acquired might help me to gain a better understanding of the present." Although the novel requires ample suspension of disbelief, there's no better author to serve such a work than Coelho (The Alchemist) his main character bears the weight of the sometimes ambiguous and wandering narrative with pithy reflections.
