The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream Flamingo Penguin Classics represents a global

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his older brother

He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering

he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before

They travelled east along the silk route to the walls of cave-temples in China

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream Flamingo Penguin Classics represents a globalPAULO COELHO'S enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom points Santiago in the direction of his