Picked up in a Healthy Planet Bookshop.

“Although I have the colours, only the Lord can mix them with such harmony.”

Elijah's is a reluctant prophet, taught by his parents to ignore his calling and become a carpenter. Prophets tend to fall out of popularity with the secular leaders and are often then killed.However, when King Ahab, allows his wife,a Phoenician princess Jezebel, to compel the people of Israel to pray to one of her pagan gods or face death Elijah has a visitation from an angel and given a prophecy. When Elijah tells this prophecy to King Ahab he becomes a hunted man. He escapes and is taken in by a widow in Akbar, despite the fact that she is very poor with barely enough food to feed herself and her son. Whilst living with the woman and the boy Elijah learns to love and struggles against fanatical forces who fear the written word. So fanatical that they are willing to see Akbar destroyed rather than see the spread of the use of the 'alphabet'. Elijah feels that his steps are haunted by death but in the end realises that by forgetting his path he can bring forward new life, some tragedies are just unavoidable.

In many respects it is interesting to see Elijah rebel against the will of God rather than merely submit often questioning God's commands as he struggles between faith and reality. I got the impression that the author believes that God wants his disciples to question His deeds rather than merely blindly follow along and that is why Man was given an inquiring mind but then again I may be reading far too much into it.

This is not one of my favourite books by the author but all the same it was an enjoyable read and despite racing through id did make me stop and think.

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”

Not my favourite Coelho book but I liked this all the same and hope that you do too. Enjoy!

Thanks for this RABCK. I've read 2 of Coelho's books now and found them interesting so glad to have a third.
And thanks for the surprise of a bonus book!

An interesting read. I opened it, not knowing what to expect really but having a bit of an idea of Coelho's writing having read 2 of his books before.
I found it a good read, easy to get into and understand. I empathized with Elijah and what he was going through, his feeling and doubts about God and his life. I found it rather predictable but well written and fascinating.

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