Coelho, however, wants the book to be more than just a haphazard ethnography namely, he wrote it as a love story between himself and the co-protagonist, a Dutch woman named Karla, but that particular aspect of the plot cannot really hold the reader’s attention.įor the most part, Hippie tracks the travels, thoughts and emotions of its two leads, Paulo and Karla. Where the book works best is as a detailed exploration of cosmopolitan Western Europe hippies, as it offers an unparalleled view of the thoughts, concerns and lexicon of this specific subculture. Hippie is a mostly nonfictional retelling of the famed Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s trip on the so-called “Magic Bus” from Amsterdam to Kathmandu in the autumn of 1970.
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