By: Paulo Coelho
This novel is all about Veronica. A young woman, has anything she could ask for, healthy, beautiful and yet she decide to kill herself only because she don’t want to see her life continue all the same, without any problems, any mistakes and also without any achievement. She taken a lot of sleeping pills in order to die peacefully in her own room. But eventually she didn’t die.
Someone found and take her to the hospital, a mental hospital. The doctor said that she only have 5 days or a week to live, since her heart was irreversibly damaged. It’s a strange when she’s very eager to die but then she struggle and cherish every minutes left. Here, she met Zedka. A woman with whom she first talk. And Eduard, a son of ambassador who pretend to be schizophrenic.
Veronica was never know that she become a subject of research conducted by Dr. Igor. The doctor gave her the time limit, to make her stop of being very meaningless to life. He made Veronika become a model for other patients in that mental hospital, who were actually healthy but afraid of facing life outside the Villete. When at last, Veronika and Eduard decide to escape, the doctor smilingly write his note. Assume that his research have been success.
A nice book, even it is not as scary as the title. A lot of life-teaching statement, intellection of what consider as normal, why do we tend to do what others told us and not the one we really want to? This book gave courage to live life to the fullest, not to feel sorry of being different or afraid to live a happy life. C’est la vie.
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