The document discusses Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer born in 1947. It summarizes his most famous book, The Alchemist, which was first published in Portuguese in 1988 and translated to English in 1993, going on to be translated into 71 languages and becoming an international bestseller. It also provides some management thoughts from the book and brief critic reviews about characters not being named enough and some climaxes being too short.

2. ABOUT AUTHOR

3. ABOUT AUTHOR CONT..
 Born in 24 August 1947 in a middle class family.
Worked as journalist
Brazilian Writer
The Crystal Award by the World Economic
Forum.

4. ABOUT BOOK

5. ABOUT BOOK
 The Alchemist is a novel first published in 1988 in brazil
language
 In 1993 it was translated in English.
 It has been translated into 71 language.
 The book has gone on to becoming an international
bestseller .

6. MANAGEMENT THOUGHTS
 There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve:
the fear of failure
 No project is completed until its objective has been achieved.
 If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better

7. MANAGEMENT THOUGHTS
 You never lose control
 When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires
to help that person to realize his dream.
 Dreams get the juices flowing

8. CRITICS
 Characters are not referenced with their name enough. Santiago the
lead character is referenced once with his name in the beginning. Rest of
the book says boy and he. This sometimes creates confusion who is say
this.
 Some moments of climax are written very short and not detailed
enough. War of Oasis with Tribal is not talked enough. After the event of
boy reaching pyramids story jumps to Spain in epilogue so fast.

9. CRITICS
 One of the chief complaints lodged against the book is that the
story, praised for its fable-like simplicity, actually is a fable–-a
retelling of “The Ruined Man who Became Rich Again through a
Dream”

10. WHO WILL LIKE THE BOOK
 This book is not targeted towards any age. All the age groups will
like this.
 Who believe and practice spirituality
 Who wants to understand their own heart and follow their dreams