The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho

Section: translated novels

Number of pages: 282 pages

Publisher: Publications Company for Distribution and Publishing

Weaving many relationships, some suspicious, and disappearing in mysterious circumstances, a new style, but an opening in the world of the contemporary novel. Athena, the gypsy child of an orphanage in Romania, is adopted by a distinguished Lebanese family, well-known as a diplomat. She rebels and crosses red borders in search of her past. It invades the minds of many bank managers, theater actors, and important people, to make Beirut, London, Dubai, and Transylvania a theater for its strange ideas and unique capabilities.