She’s a selfish brat who has no reason to want to kill herself but she decides to anyway because she’s bored.
Literally, Veronika has nothing to complain about. Veronika just doesn’t want to be alive anymore because she thinks she’s reached her prime and after this (she’s twenty-four, by the way), her life is only going to get worse and she can’t possibly be around to watch herself become unhappy. She isn’t upset about anything, she hasn’t gone through any violent or traumatic ordeal and she isn’t sick and dying of some terminal illness. The book centres around a young woman who is just done with life. I read it again recently, and boy do I have a different opinion of it now than I did when I was sixteen. I did some research, bought the book, and read it.
I remember hearing about it for the first time because of the Billy Talent song called Saint Veronika which is loosely based on the book. This is actually the only Coelho novel I’ve read.
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