Veronika decides to die
By: Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Description: "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.