Aleph
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4.4 • 13 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Un fascinante relato autobiográfico que tiene mucho de descubrimiento interior.
Escrita en apenas tres semanas, esta novela sigue el viaje espiritual de su protagonista a bordo del Transiberiano, en busca de una fe renovada y de un nuevo comienzo. Por el camino conoce a Hilal, con quien comparte un pasado complejo en un universo paralelo y con la que debe volver a conectar para encontrar el amor, el perdón y la anhelada nueva oportunidad.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
