Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, pleny of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.
Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.
The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.
In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on 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. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.
ISBN:61015016
Author:COELHO PAULO
Shukri Mohamed –
The hidden truth in text.
Claim your mental freedom; you will only understand you were slave when you read this book.
Messages that the writer clearly highlighted are;
1. Your sustenance is not connected to your level of education.
2. Career is engaging yourself in what you love doing not what you are pushed to do.
2. Divorce is not an option while you can change the mindset of your partner.
3. Social media is a sword with two edges.
4.clean body and brain are raised in clean environment.
What else can I tell you about this book other than #read and free yourself.
Thank you madam Saadia A. Siyat for this book.
Shukri –
The hidden truth in text.
Claim your mental freedom; you will only understand you were slave when you read this book.
Messages that the writer clearly highlighted are;
1. Your sustenance is not connected to your level of education.
2. Career is engaging yourself in what you love doing not what you are pushed to do.
2. Divorce is not an option while you can change the mindset of your partner.
3. Social media is a sword with two edges.
4.clean body and brain are raised in clean environment.
What else can I tell you about this book other than #read and free yourself.
Thank you madam Saadia A. Siyat for this book.
Rukia Ahmed –
The best book l came across this year .The most important things to me as a reader is a book that’s interesting which makes me to yearn for next chapter,a book that gives me new discoveries,that which makes me to question things that I never questioned before ,l found all these in Claim your mental Freedom 💯.
It has a simple, understandable, interesting style and language.
It let’s characters to speak for themselves,we see the life of the characters,what scripts they initially had ,what made them to question the ‘norm’ ,who helped them the journey to mental freedom, what life looks like after they attained self discovery which gave them mental freedom.
I like how the book brings out how we are guided by scripts which are dictated for us by parents or society and how we fall into that trap and we waste most of our time regretting about some decisions we make e.g career, profession,love and relationships, social media , education, environment, success etc.
I wish this book could be read by someone who has a dictated script and that it helps you rewrite your own script.
Thank you Saadia for this book
Abdinassir Ahmed –
Perhaps the only description with which I can describe this book is that it is unique and interesting, a true miracle as novice writer. Simple words, yet of great significance. It contains clear and simplified words, but Its content is valuable, and a very deep and philosophical meaning that deserves contemplation.
The Author talks about many things, such as career, success, Social media and love…., in a gentle, unpretentious manner. I advise any reader or writer to read it and will never regret it.