Bibliograph

The witch of Portobello, a novel, Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

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The witch of Portobello, a novel, Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The witch of Portobello

Oclc number

77758883

Responsibility statement

Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Coelho returns with another uncanny fusion of philosophy, religious miracle and moral parable. The Portobello of the title is London's Portobello Road, where Sherine Khalil, aka Athena, finds the worship meeting she's leading-where she becomes an omniscient goddess named Hagia Sophia-disrupted by a Protestant protest. Framed as a set of interviews conducted with those who knew Athena, who is dead as the book opens

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