Veronika is stucked between life and death, sanity and madness. Her heart had suffered irreversible damage. When she awakens from her coma, the doctor said she has only a few days to live.
She ends up in Villete, a famous hospital for the mentally ill. Downing four packets of sleeping pills, she slips into a slow and painful death, but she did not die. She has a family that loves her, friends who support her, and has a steady job at the library in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Veronika, young at the age of 24, is suicidal but she has no reason to take her own life. To quote Coelho, he said this: “I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.” This is exactly what happened in the story of this girl. Veronika, like the other two books, is concerned with a week in the life of ordinary people who are suddenly confronted with love, death and power. The first book is By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994) and the concluding one which is The Devil and Miss Prym (2000). Veronika Decides to Die (1998) is one of the three books in the trilogy And on the Seventh Day. I liked this one a lot more than the last two I read: The Alchemist and Like the Flowing River. I have finished reading yet another book, Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
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