"Among Latin American writers only Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez is more widely read than Brazil’s Paulo Coelho."

--The Economist

"Coelho exhibits an amazing virtue of transparency that makes his writing like a path of energy that inadvertently leads readers to themselves, toward their mysterious and faraway souls."

--Figaro Litteraire, France

Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? This is the question Paulo Coelho faces in this story about his confrontation with his past. In The Valkyries, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, embark on a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, where they encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles.

A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and stark storytelling for which Coelho’s fictional works are renowned, this true-life odyssey is at once a modern-day adventure story and a poignant message about letting go of the past and believing in the future.