As they travel together, Paulo and Karla explore their own relationship: a life-defining love story that awakens them on every level and leads to choices and decisions that will set the course for their lives thereafter. They embark on the journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, and each of whom will undergo a personal transformation, changing their priorities and values along the way. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. He was born to devout Catholic parents in Brazil and attended a Jesuit school. There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. Drawing on his own past experiences, Coelho (The Alchemist) tells the story of a.

Paulo’s travels take him from South America to the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam filled with young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense, meditating and playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness, and the search for an inner truth. Knopf, 25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-5256-5561-9. 3 4 Coelho later remarked that 'It wasn't that they wanted to hurt me, but they didn't know what to do. At 17, Coelho's parents committed him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life. Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and attended a Jesuit school. B.If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.ĭrawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order.

Summary A Brazilian man and a Dutch woman embark on an extraordinary journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the 1960s Member ofĬataloging source DLC Coelho, Paulo Dewey number 869.3/42 Index no index present LC call number PQ9698.13.O3546 LC item number H5613 2018 Literary form fiction Becker, Eric M. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Hippie by Paulo Coelho, read by Graham Halstead. Label Hippie Title Hippie Statement of responsibility Paulo Coelho translated by Eric M.

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