![]() ![]() ![]() She feels powerless to change her life and feels that things will only get worse as she ages, so makes a relatively passionless decision to end her life in order to find “freedom.” As she waits for the pills to take hold, she reads an article asking, “Where is Slovenia?” (in a meta stroke, the article is stated as being written by Coelho) and decides to write a letter to the editor, justifying her suicide as a reaction to the article’s belittlement of her home country. Though she has a job, friends and family, she feels nothing but apathy toward her life and feels no great draw toward the kind of life that is expected of her. Veronika is a young librarian with a good life that she nonetheless finds unfulfilling. ![]() The novel takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, a few years after the break up of Yugoslavia. It follows the story of a 24-year-old woman’s attempted suicide and stay at a mental hospital. Veronika Decides to Die is a 1998 novel by Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. ![]()
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