Alchemist - Paulo Coelho! - What’s your secret talent? Note: This is an archive post. Discover why golf is my new [active meditation against overthinking]. The Alchemist - is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. H ello, my friends! Thanks for coming! Today I am going to talk about The Alchemist! This book tells the story of a young man named Santiago, and the story begins in southern Spain. Santiago is a young shepherd who walks through the valleys of Andalusia with his sheep, and in one night he has a dream of a treasury near the pyramids of Egypt. After that, he meets a gypsy who tells him that he has to fulfill his personal legend and find his treasure. But, he returns to his healthy life until he meets an old king in the city of Tarifa. The old king speaks and tells him to follow his personal legend. The old man tells him that when someone wants to realize a dream, the whole Universe conspires in his favor. So, Sant...