Brida, Spanish Edition [Paperback]

Paulo Coelho (Author), Montserrat Mira (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2003

The secrets of witches have survived hatred, fire, rationalism and forgetting, passing through the centuries thanks to the women who have kept, from generation to generation, the mysterious tradition of the moon. Brida is the true story of one of the youngest masters of the witch tradition. Paulo Coelho recounts the first steps of a young woman who was 21 years old at the time and who decided that her destiny was profoundly connected to the mysteries of magic.

Los secretos de las hechiceras sobrevivieron al odio, a las hogueras, al racionalismo y al olvido, atravesando los siglos gracias a las mujeres que mantenían, de generación en generación, los misterios de la tradición de la Luna. Brida es la historia real de una de las más jóvenes Maestras de la Tradición de las Hechiceras. Paulo Coelho cuenta los primeros pasos de la entonces muchacha de 21 años que, un bello día, decidió que su destino estaba profundamente ligado a los misterios de la magia.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Language Notes

Text: Spanish --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Paulo Coelho (Brasil, 1947. Sus resenas biograficas comienzan, casi siempre, diciendo que es uno de los autores mas leidos de mundo. Este es verdad, pero mucho mas importante aun destacar que se trata de uno de los autores que mayor influencia ejercen hoy sobre sus lectores. Antes de publicar El peregrino en 1987, fue dramaturgo, director teatral, compositor y periodista. Su segunda obra, El Alquimista (1988), lo consagro mundialmente. Con mas de 30 millones de ejemplares vendidos, ha sido traducido a 67 idiomas en mas de 150 paises, y se ha convertido en un clasico. Entre muchas otras actividades y distinciones, Paulo Coelho fue reconocido por el Foro Economico Mundial con en Cristal Award, y es Mensajero de Paz de la ONU, embajador de la Union Europea para el Dialogo Intercultural, Miembro de la Academia Brasilena de Letras y Caballero de la Orden Nacional de la Legion de Honor y de las Artes y las Letras de Francia. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Planeta (April 2003)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9504910564
• ISBN-13: 978-9504910565
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,211,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.

In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.

In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.

Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S'o Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)

During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.

Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress (http://paulocoelhoblog.com), Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/paulocoelho) & Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulo-Coelho/11777366210). He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=paulabraconnot) and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulo_coelho/sets) , offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.

From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch http://paulocoelhoblog.com/experimental-witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!

Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com of his work.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El mejor libro, The best book, September 29, 2005

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Francisco Villalobos (panajachel,guatemala) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brida (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

Este es el mejor libro que he leído, Coelho usa un lenguaje simple, facil de entender.La historia de Brida puede ser la historia de todos nosotros(al menos en ese libro pude leer mi historia),como dice otro lector, es un libro para los que creemos que necesitamos a nuestra otra parte para alcanzar la felicidad total en nuestras vidas.Si todos buscaran sus sueños sin importar lo que diga la sociedad,si todos pudieramos vencer nuestros miedos,nuestra noche obscura, y seguir nuestro corazón,nuestros sentimientos en lugar de encasillarnos en una rutina y dejarnos llevar por la corriente del conformismo, este mundo sería diferente, si pudieramos decir no a la rutina y salirnos de la monotonía de la vida para buscar las respuestas a nuestras preguntas, si supieramos entender la diferencia entre el verdadero amor(nuestra otra parte)y la costumbre de estar con alguien, encontraríamos la felicidad eterna que todos deseamos.
Brida is a great story about the search of answers to your questions, about the quest for love and happines, and realizing your dreams by folowing your heart, told in a very clear way and easy to read and understand.I strongly recomend this book to everyone who believes that we need our other half to reach total hapiness.
i would have given it 7 stars if i could but 5 was the top.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Lovely, awesome book", October 2, 2007

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Florcita (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brida (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

I totally loved this book!!! Brida is an Irish young woman, who like Santiago, the Alchemyst, is also in search of her personal legend!!! She had to follow her heart! Although it was scary at times she pursued her destiny, she wanted to be trained in the Wican tradition! She found a teacher from the tradition of the Sun, and another from the tradition of the Moon, she learnt what she had to learn from both of them!!!
A story about reincarnation, and soulmates, and about the women who were midwives and healers and were accused of being witches and were persecuted and killed, some time ago!!
I think this is another masterpiece of Paulo Coelho, I read it in Spanish, I wish this book is translated to English some time soon, so it'll be available to more people to read, I'll definetelly read it again!!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fala Portuguese, May 10, 2008

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David W. Hearn "UNCELNINO" (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brida: Novela (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Paulo Coehlo is one of my favorite authors with The Alchemist being my favorite book. I am sure that Brida is another fantastic work, however, I do not speak Portuguese and the pre-order that i received was not translated to English. Be careful when ordering to select the appropriate language.