The Winner Stands Alone
2008 novel by Paulo Coelho
978-0-00-731868-1The Winner Stands Alone is a novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, first published in 2008 under the Portuguese title O Vencedor está Só.
The story is set at the Cannes Film Festival and roughly based upon the growing rise of what the author calls The Superclass.[1] While the reviewer in the Financial Times admitted that the book's background was well researched, he complained that its plotting was weak and the writing over-indulgent: "Coelho alights on all the obvious clichés…and repeats them at inordinate length".[2]
Plot
The loosely connected plot tells the story of several individuals: Igor, a psychopathic Russian mobile phone mogul; Ewa, formerly Igor's wife but now married to Hamid, a Middle Eastern fashion magnate; Jasmine, an African woman on the brink of a successful modeling career; American actress Gabriela, eager to land a leading film role; and an ambitious criminal detective, hoping to resolve the case of his life. The tale narrates the tension within and between the characters in a 24-hour period.
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Works by Paulo Coelho
- The Manifest of Krig-há (1974)
- Theater For Education (1974)
- Hell Archives (1982)
- Practical Manual of Vampirism (1986)
- The Pilgrimage (1987)
- The Alchemist (1988)
- Brida (1990)
- The Greatest Gift (1991)
- The Valkyries (1992)
- Maktub (1994)
- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
- The Fifth Mountain (1996)
- Love Letters from a Prophet (1997)
- Manual of the Warrior of Light (1997)
- Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
- Essential Words (1998)
- The Devil and Miss Prym (2000)
- Fathers, Sons and Grandsons (2001)
- Eleven Minutes (2003)
- And on the Seventh Day (2004)
- The Genie and the Roses (2004)
- Journeys (2004)
- The Zahir (2005)
- Revived Paths (2005)
- Like the Flowing River (2006)
- The Witch of Portobello (2006)
- Life: Selected Quotations (2007)
- The Winner Stands Alone (2008)
- Aleph (2010)
- Manuscript Found in Accra (2012)
- Adultery (2014)
- The Spy (2016)
- Hippie (2018)
- The Archer (2020)
- The Wizard (2008)
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