In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era's richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari's lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hari's voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price.
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COELHO PAULO
Nació en Río de Janeiro en 1947. Trabajó como director y autor de teatro, periodista y compositor antes de dedicarse a los libros. Desde la publicación de su primer libro, El Peregrino de Compostela Diario de un mago , se han vendido más de 320 millones de ejemplares de sus novelas en todo el mundo. Entre sus mayores éxitos destaca El Alquimista, considerado el libro brasileño más vendido de todos los tiempos, publicado en ciento setenta países y traducido a ochenta y ocho idiomas.
