Both of them leave for a journey with many fellow travellers, each of whom has an enchanting story to share. Karla suggests Paulo to go on a trip with her to Nepal by the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia. His journey takes him to Amsterdam, where he meets a girl named Karla, a woman in her 20s who later falls in love with Paulo. In order to materialise the dream of being a writer and search for a deeper meaning of his life, he leaves the world behind and sets off a journey in search of a meaning to his dreamt dreams. The book starts with Paulo, who is a young and skinny Brazilian with long hair, having a shattered dream of being a writer in his eyes. But the book, sadly, is unable to live up to our expectations as we expected it to be as inspiring as The Alchemist The book is a wonderful journey based on the time in which Coelho himself was travelling the world and was living the life of a hippie.

The book however, presents a unique perspective of hippies by exploring their life style and values in such a way the writer has experienced. His latest book Hippie is one of them which take the readers to a time when a huge amount people could travel through Europe, having only $5 with them and meet with pleasant company wherever they went. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic and unquestioning life that their parents had known.Ĭoelho is not such a writer who just only writes novels or stories, indeed he has the rare technique to share his knowledge and experiences to his readers in the best possible ways. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be found meditating, playing music and discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness and the search for an inner truth. Following the “three days of peace and music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, New York that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world.

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