![]() ![]() The author's most ardent fans will enjoy this, but readers looking for an immersive tale with fully formed characters will be disappointed. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a skinny Brazilian with a goatee, learning about himself by exploring the world. Coelho never quite brings the reader in to the main characters' experiences and lives, but some of the narrative side trips are worth taking. 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. Karla, meanwhile, is planning a trip to Nepal to pursue her own spiritual liberation. ![]() There Paulo meets Karla, and they begin the first tentative steps toward the lasting love that Karla desperately seeks. In HIPPIE, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared. 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. 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. ![]()
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