Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. In Hippie, he tells the story of a young Brazilian man, Paulo, and Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties, who share a journey of self-discovery aboard the Magic Bus, as it travels from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in 1970. In his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho interweaves adventure, philosophy, and the true stories of his own life to give readers an essential book for our time.

Paolo, a Brazilian man and Karla, a Dutch woman, embark on an journey of self-discovery as they travel by bus from Amsterdam to Kathmandu. Against a backdrop of the protests and sexual-liberation experiments of the 1960s, they explore their relationship and are led to choices and decisions that will set the course for their lives thereafter. -- adapted from back cover.

In English, translated from the Portuguese.