Veronika Decides to Die

By Paulo Coelho

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Veronika, a 24-year-old librarian in Ljubljana, Slovenia, decides to end her life. She survives and wakes in Villete, a mental hospital, where doctors tell her that her heart is damaged and she has only days to live. Among the other patients, she begins to feel a passion for life she has never known. The second novel in Paulo Coelho's trilogy And on the Seventh Day asks what it means to be sane in a conformist world.

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