About the Book: Hippie
In Hippie, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back
in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace and dared to
challenge the established social order-authoritarian politics, conservative
modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of
wealth and power. Following the "three days of peace and music" at Woodstock,
the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY, that would change the world forever, hippie
paradises began to emerge all around the world. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam,
long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense could be
found meditating, playing music and discussing