
The hospital staff informs her that she, in fact, has partially succeeded in achieving what she began.īut, the overdose didn’t kill Veronika instantly, but that medication has damaged her heart instead so severely now she has to live with the fact that she’s only left with a few days to live. But instead, she shockingly wakes up at Villete, a local mental hospital nearby.

She takes a handful of sleeping pills in order to never wake up again. So, on one fine morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She feels a void so deeply that nothing is ever enough to fill it. Yet, she always feels a lack in her life. Youth, beauty, attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and an amazingly loving family. In this book, a twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything a girl could ever wish for. Language- Originally: Portuguese, Adapted: English Now we must have read a lot of things related to life, but how often do we dive into the topics of death? Let us analyse what Paulo Coelho, a well known Brazilian novelist has to offer about the philosophy of death through a fictional story line. In a nutshell, we are completely clueless about either of them. We spend our lives in realizing what actually life is and when the end arrives, we fear what might death will hold for us.

Life and death are two deep concepts that are beyond the human understanding of persistence.
