Coelho, Paulo <br/><br/>
Veronika decides to die / 
Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa 
 - 1st Harper Perennial ed 
 - New York :  Harper Perennial,  2006 
 - 210 p. ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything—youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does—at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. 
<br/><br/> "Another of Coelho's spiritual journeys, this time by the 24-year-old protagonist who, after a failed suicide attempt, rediscovers in an insane asylum in Slovenia the preciousness and precariousness of life. Costa's translation is competent, but cannot save Coelho's novel from its by now familiar and conventionally inspirational tone and message"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0061124265  (pbk.) 9780061015014  (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Young women--Suicidal behavior--Fiction<br/>Mental illness--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.54