Paulo Coelho - The alchemist

A Spanish shepard boy explores his dreams and find himself on a journey across the Sahara desert to Egypt on a treasure hunt. He looses his belongings, and build a treasure, to loose it again. He gets confronted with incredible questions of life, but choose an uncharted path. He met the love of his life, and as the story of life, he finds himself soon at the beginning of the adventure, and facing death.


The book reads very easy, the turns the story takes is not completely unexpected, but the little life stories are very clear. A good read, and a fairy tale with life lessons in perseverance.