SUMMARY: Veronika is young and pretty and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local hospital. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information
Veronika Decides to Die
β Scribed by Paulo Coelho
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 23 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
Veronika is young and pretty and has everything she could wish for - yet one morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up in the local hospital. This exciting new edition includes exclusive content, such as an interview with the author, in-depth background information on the book, and much more.Veronika has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. The overdose of sleeping pills she takes does not work, and she wakes up in Villete, the local asylum. There she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live.The story follows Veronika through these intense days as she starts to question all her ideas about life. Soon she comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Against all odds she finds herself falling in love and even wanting to live again...
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Veronika es una joven completamente normal. Es guapa, no le faltan pretendientes y tiene un buen trabajo. Su vida transcurre sin mayores sobresaltos, sin grandes alegrΓas ni grandes tristezas. Pero no es feliz. Por eso, una maΓ±ana de noviembre, Veronika decide acabar con su vida. SueΓ±os y fantasΓas.
Il giorno 11 novembre del 1997 Veronika, ventiquattro anni, slovena, capisce di non voler piΓΉ vivere e assume una forte dose di sonniferi. Salvata per caso, si risveglia tra le mura dellospedale psichiatrico di Villete, con il cuore stanco e sofferente per il veleno che lei gli ha somministrato. In