The Winner Stands Alone

Description

Paulo Coelho plunges headlong into the world of the ultra-luxury—celebrities, the wealthy, and those in power—and confronts them at their most vulnerable moments, stripped of all pretense and artifice.

He observes their behavior and reactions to the hardships they face. He presents them to us as they truly are, naked and exposed, those who dictate how we live, where we go, and how much money, energy, and time we should expend! They dictate the space we are entitled to occupy and the extent of the dreams we are allowed. They are the players who see life only in its pleasures, and who, despite the noise and crowds, remain prisoners of loneliness and desolation.

Twenty-four hours at the Cannes Film Festival, where Igor is determined to win back his wife’s love at any cost, Paulo Coelho’s pen plays tricks, depicting and analyzing after plunging the pretentious festival attendees into an inescapable crisis.

In “The Winner Stands Alone,” the triad of power, money, and fame, and the extent of their hold on people’s souls, is ignited. In it, Paulo Coelho presents a world we live in, or that others live in, a world whose strangeness and hidden depths we never truly realized.

A reckoning, a moment of self-reflection, an introspective exploration in a world that believes only in appearances, where perpetrators and victims of carefully crafted dreams chase after them, unaware that the price may be exorbitant…