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Recommended philosophical books (4)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into philosophical here are some philosophical books from Brazil for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

1.
Água Viva
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Água Viva by Clarice Lispector EN

Rating: 3.3     7 Votes
Description:
Lispector at her most philosophically radical.
Recommended: 24 Aug 2022

2.
Hippie
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Hippie by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 4     5 Votes
Description:
A journey to the past. A map for the future. After hitchhiking from Brazil to nearly halfway around the world, Paulo stumbles across Karla, a young Dutch woman and like-minded soul, in Amsterdam’s famous Dam Square. Together they decide to take the fabled hippie trail across Europe to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus, in search of self-discovery. So begins a life-defining love story that will set the course for the rest of their lives. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, Paulo Coelho relives the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and challenged the established social order.

3.
The Alchemist
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo EN

Rating: 3     4917 Votes
Description:
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English ... continue

4.
Veronika Decides to Die
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Veronika Decides to Die : A Novel of Redemption by Paulo Coelho EN

Rating: 4     67 Votes
Description:
Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Bold and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman ... continue
Recommended: 31 Oct 2022

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