Your Personal Legend "is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Before he starts the journey, Santiago meets an old king named Melchizedek, or the king of Salem, who tells him to sell his sheep, so as to travel to Egypt, and introduces the idea of a Personal Legend. A fortune teller interprets the dream as a prophecy. Santiago keeps dreaming about a treasure that he discovers near the pyramids in Egypt. The story starts with a description of a shepherd named Santiago arriving with his flock at an abandoned Church. He explained that he was able to write at this pace because the story was "already written in soul." Coelho wrote The Alchemist in only two weeks in 1987. The novel is an allegory that follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. It was first published in 1988 in Portuguese and is now translated internationally into many languages. The Alchemist by the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho is one of the best-selling books in history.
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