The Valkyries
HarperCollins · Paperback · August 3, 2021
When You Love, You Change the World Why is it that we destroy the things we love most?
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- Who it’s for
- A Mojave quest pairs dramatic adventure with a searching look at the past.
- Themes
- Confronting the past, Letting go and believing in the future, Love and personal change
- Pacing
- Mixed
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When You Love, You Change the World Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this touching story about his confrontation with his past. In The Valkyries, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, embark on a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, where they encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles.
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A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and stark storytelling for which Coelho’s fictional works are renowned, this true-life odyssey is at once a modern-day adventure story and a poignant message about letting go of the past and believing in the future.
Desert Reckoning
A Mojave quest pairs dramatic adventure with a searching look at the past.
Come here for
- A forty-day desert journey with an adventurous edge
- Reflections on love, change, and letting go
Expect
- Stark storytelling alongside dramatic adventure
- A true-life odyssey focused on the past and future
Where it sits
| Visionary Fiction | 71% |
|---|---|
| Faith & Fiction | 26% |
| Literary Fiction | 26% |
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Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Literary Fiction
- The Occult & Supernatural
- Faith & Fiction
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- Christian Romance
- Christian Fantasy
- Women's Fiction
- Authors
- Paulo Coelho
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- August 3, 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Confronting the past · Letting go and believing in the future · Love and personal change
- Reading lane
- The Classics