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Manuscript Found in Accra is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. The action is placed in 1099 in Jerusalem while the city awaits the invasion of the crusaders. Inside the city’s walls, men and women gathered to hear the wise words of a mysterious Greek man– known as the Copt.
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In 1974, an English archaeologist discovered a manuscript in Accra, the present capital of Ghana; carbon dating showed that it had originated in 1307. Written in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin, the document describes a meeting in the year 1099 between the people of Jerusalem and a sage known as the Copt.
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- Preface and Greeting
- Part One
- About Defeat
- The Defeated Ones
- Solitude
- Uselessness
- Afraid to Change
- Beauty
- Which Direction to Take
- Love Has Always Passed Me by
The papyruses are Greek translations of texts written between the end of the First century BC and AD 180, and they constitute a body of work also known as the Apocryphal Gospelsbecause they are not...
Now that I am at the end of my life, I leave for those who come after me everything that I learned while I walked the face of this Earth. May they make good use of it... tomorrow, life will underta...
Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: “That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s t...
The defeated are those who never fail... Defeat means that we lose a particular battle or war. Failure does not allow us to go on fighting... Defeat comes when we fail to get something we very much...
Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side... Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive for any length of time, no child can learn about life, no a...
There are those who wake each morning with a heavy heart. They are not seekers after love, recognition or work. They say to themselves: ‘I’m useless. I live because I have to survive, but no one, a...
We are afraid to change because we think that, after much effort and sacrifice, we know our present world. And even though that world might not be the best of all worlds... When necessary, we will...
People always say: ‘It’s inner beauty that matters, not outer beauty.’ Well, that’s not true. If it were, why would flowers put so much energy into attracting bees? And why would raindrops transfor...
Like the sun, life spreads its light in all directions.They go back to their childhood and look for what filled them with enthusiasm then and disregarding the advice of their elders - devote their life to it. Because Enthusiasm is the Sacred Fire.They slowly discover that their actions are linked to a mysterious impulse beyond human knowledge. And they bow their head as a sign of respect for that mystery and pray that they will not be diver...They use their intuition when they can and resort to discipline when intuition fails them... And sometimes they behave like mad people, but they are not mad. They have discovered true Love and Will...Those who ignore the question, those who answer it and those who understand that the only way to confront it is to take action will all meet the same obstacles and be made happy by the same things,...In order to hear Love’s words, you must allow Love to approach. However, when it does draw near, we fear what it might say to us, because Love is free and is not ruled by our will or by what we do.
Manuscript Found in Accra. The entire plot of Manuscript Found in Accra occurs in the first ten pages. Coelho is the recipient of a translation of some papyruses, originally written in Arabic, Hebrew and Latin, and dated the fourteenth of July, 1099, the eve of an attack on Jerusalem by the crusaders.
- Margaret Jull Costa (Trans.)
Manuscrito Encontrado em Accra: Manuscript Found in Accra: 2014 Adultério: Adultery: 2016 A Espiã: The Spy: 2018 Hippie: Hippie: 2020 O Caminho do Arco: The Archer
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In Manuscript Found in Accra Paulo Coelho reveals in this deeply thoughtful novel that the great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us. 1099. Jerusalem awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the city’s gates.
