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Veronika decides to die / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF COEL	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780007551804 (paperback)
Name	Coelho, Paulo author.
Title	Veronika decides to die / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Published	London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Published	©1999.
Description	195 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary	The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho - a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning she decides to die. She takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that her heart is damaged and she has only a few days to live. The story follows Veronika through these intense days as to her surprise she finds herself experiencing feelings she has never really felt before. Against all odds she finds herself falling in love and even wanting to live again...
Language note	Translated from the Portuguese.
Subjects	Suicide -- Fiction
Subjects	Quality of life -- Fiction
Other Names	Costa, Margaret Jull translator.
Series	And on the seventh day 02.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Quality of life -- Fiction . Suicide -- Fiction . Authors: Coelho, Paulo . Costa, Margaret Jull . Series: And on the seventh day .