Veronika decides to die / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial, 2006Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: 210 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0061124265; 9780061124266Uniform titles: Veronika decide morrer. English Subject(s): Young women -- Suicidal behavior -- Fiction | Mental illness -- FictionReview: "Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
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"Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
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