 | Category: | Books | | Genre: | Romance | | Author: | PAULO COELHO |
Who is Athena? The orphan abandoned by her gypsy mother in Transylvania. The child taken to Beirut by her adoptive parents. The clerk working in a large bank in London. The successful real estate agent in Dubai. The priestess of Portobello Road. Athena is the main character in The Witch of Portobello. Her story is told by the people who knew her, amongst them, her adoptive mother, a journalist researching vampirism, a priest, a teacher of calligraphy, and an actress. They each draw a different facet of her character, describing what they saw and experienced as well as their own impressions, beliefs and anxieties.
  | ohre wrote on May 11, '07 very interested for this book. I still don't read it.I'm also an orphan growing up by myself, this argoment tuched me very deep.thanks for your dedication for this story, by rita |
 | Well... The Witch... left me an enlightened person from within... it led me to accept myself the way I am... taught me the real meaning of the gifts that the universe bestows upon you... and that if the Mother does choose you.. it is the best to heed her call.. All I want to do is to thank Coelho, for being the teacher... |
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 | This is a fabulous book.I really identified with Athena..Though it s true..it imparts a sense of surrealistic beauty to it..very ethereal and at the same time very real!Loved reading it to the core!Wonderful insights in many places and all so true n fantastic. |
 | opki wrote on Sep 19, '07, edited on Sep 19, '07 I read the book in three days, between living my life, couldn't put it down, it was riveting, and I can identify with Athena and her passion for experiencing life to the full, a very clever book that I think I will read again, I'm sure to have missed loads with the speed I read it. |
 | zlatna wrote on Oct 5, '07, edited on Oct 5, '07 I read this book today. I read it in three days too, despite I had a lot of work this week and the book was in my hands in every free hours. It's a wonderful book and I have no words to describe my emotions after the reading. Thanks, Paulo. |
 | i read ds book for abt 3 times.. sayn dt i lovd it wud b so less... i felt smthing out of ds world...i realised few thngs by readin it... merely i got bk d faith dt i had lost.. i realisd d presence of d divine lord, i m in love wd ds book had alredy startd readin it for d 4th tym
i wont say dt i totaly understud it bt i beliv dat dere r blank spaces...n m fillin mine by readin d book agn n agn.
thnx 4 ds enlightenin |
 | I couldn't read the book though I wish to , but I couldn't find it !
can you tell please where I can find publishers in Egypt who publish this fabulous book !
I really like reading for Paulo and I admire him much ..
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 | I am from Romania I would say that this book by its main character - a Which born in Transylvania, (north western part of Romania) - is an offense to the image and to the history of my country.
The (bad) surprise was even bigger since Mr. Coelho has visited my country a couple of years ago. And the only thing that he could write about Romania was about a Which - you know, Transylvania the country of witches and vampires - and the Which has to be a gypsy. Even thought the romanian authorities do not fully agree, in Romania there is a serious problem with the gypsy community.
So, Mr Coelho could not be more shallow and "politically" wrong from a my point of view.
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 | where could i but that book? wala kc sa national bookstore and powerbook |
 | i just bought this book yesterday and im really intrigued w/ athena. im just wondering if she really existed |
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