![]() ![]() Karla is Dutch and a Protestant, and she yearns to see the world from a wider perspective. ![]() They meet, appropriately enough, in Dam Square, perhaps the hippie center of the cosmos. This character has linked up with Karla in Amsterdam in September 1970. While the narrative is written in the third person, it doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to identify some aspects of a character named “Paulo” (also referred to as “the Brazilian”) with the author. The novel reads rather like a series of impressions clustered around a trip (no pun intended) through Europe and toward Kathmandu. Prolific Brazilian author Coelho is back with another novel, loosely based on his experiences growing up (a problematic phrase) in the psychedelic 1960s and '70s. ![]()
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