Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho

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Condition notes : Folded and slanted spine, slightly yellowed pages

Summary : Reading age: 16+

Veronika, a beautiful young Slovenian woman, seems to have everything she could wish for in life. Yet, she is not happy.

On November 21, 1997, she decides to die.

Her suicide attempt leads her to the Villete psychiatric hospital, where she meets truly insane people, but also seemingly normal people who seem to have taken refuge behind the high walls of the asylum out of fear of the unknown, a desire for security, or weariness of a routine existence. There, Veronika understands that, at every minute of our existence, we have the choice between living and giving up, and that, to feel fully alive, she must recognize the part of madness she carries within her.

"Stay mad, but act like normal people. Take the risk of being different, but learn to do it without attracting attention. And let your true Self manifest itself.

"What is the true Self?" Veronika asks.

"It's who you are, not what others have made you."

And Veronika, who was incapable of understanding her own desires, will discover at Villete the freedom to abandon herself to them.

Genre : Young Adult, Personal Development

Publisher : Anne Carrière

Format : Paperback

Publication date : 2000

Number of pages : 288

ISBN : 9782843370847