"Among Latin American writers only Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more widely read than Brazil’s Paulo Coelho."

--The Economist

"[Coelho] has attained the technical levels of a Saint-Exupery."

--Folha de Sao Paolo, Brazil

"Coelho exhibits an amazing virtue of transparency that makes his writing like a path of energy that inadvertently leads readers to themselves, toward their mysterious and faraway souls:’

--Figaro Litteraire, France

Here Paulo Coelho details his journey across Spain along the legendary road of San Tiago, which pilgrims have traveled since the Middle Ages. On this contemporary quest, he encounters a Chaucerian variety of mysterious guides and devilish opponents and learns to understand the nature of truth through the simplicity of life.

The Pilgrimage holds an important place in Paulo coelhos literarycanon. His first book, it not only paved the way for his phenomenal novelThe Alchemist, but it also fully expresses his humanist philosophy and thedepth of his unique search for meaning.

Prologue

Map: The Road to Santiago

Arrival

Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

The Seed Exercise

The Creator and the Created

The Speed Exercise

Cruelty

The Cruelty Exercise

The Messenger

The Messenger Ritual

Love

The Arousal of Intuition

(The Water Exercise)

Marriage

Enthusiasm

The Blue Sphere Exercise

Death

The Buried Alive Exercise

Personal Vices

Conquest

The RAM Breathing Exercise

Madness

The Shadows Exercise

Command and O’bedience

The Listening Exercise

The Tradition

The Dance Exercise

El Cebrero

Epilogue:

Santiago de Compostela