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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> The beloved, bestselling international author of <em>The Alchemist</em> returns with another haunting novel—a thrilling journey into our constant fascination with the worlds of fame, fortune, and celebrity. </p> </blockquote> <p> A profound meditation on personal power and innocent dreams that are manipulated or undone by success, <em>The Winner Stands Alone</em> is set in the exciting worlds of fashion and cinema. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours during the Cannes Film Festival, it is the story of Igor, a successful, driven Russian entrepreneur who will go to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love—his ex-wife, Ewa. Believing that his life with Ewa was divinely ordained, Igor once told her that he would destroy whole worlds to get her back. The conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges, and as the novel unfolds, morality is derailed. </p> <p> Meet the players and poseurs behind the scenes at Cannes—the &quot;Superclass&quot; of producers, actors, designers, and supermodels, as well as the aspiring starlets, has-been stars, and jaded hangers-on. Adroitly interweaving the characters' stories, Paulo Coelho uses his twelfth novel to paint an engrossing picture of a world overrun by glamour and excess, and shows us the possibly dire consequences of our obsession with fame. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not going to write any spoilers about the plot so i don't ruin it for people, but I will spoil it for people who have been looking forward to another Coelho book by giving my harshest review. Now, i get to be harsh because I am one of Paulo's biggest fans, and I take his work very seriously, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50489359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kesuksesan adalah racun yang penuh godaan.<br/><br/>Berlatarbelakang Festival Film Cannes, The Winner Stands Alone bukan hanya cerita tentang kemewahan dan dunia glamour para bintang, namun juga menuntun kita ke dalam perenungan dalam tentang kekuatan mimpi-mimpi kita serta nilai-nilai yang kita gunakan untuk mengukur diri sendiri.<br/><br/>Selama 24 jam kita diajak mengikuti jejak langkah Igor, pengusaha telekomunikasi kaya raya dari Rusia, yang merasa terpukul setelah ditinggal istrinya, dan memutuskan untuk menarik perhatian sang mantan istri dengan sebuah rencana gila. Dalam prosesnya, Igor bersilang jalan dengan Gabriela, aktris muda dan ambisius; Jasmine, model dari Rwanda yang menjadi pengungsi di Eropa; Javits, produser berpengaruh dan korup; dan Hamid, pengusaha yang memulai dari bawah dan sedang berada pada puncak kejayaannya. Kemunculan Igor mengubah hidup mereka selamanya.<br/><br/>Kisah yang intens ini membawa kita ke dalam lingkup orang-orang terkenal, sukses, dan bergelimang uang, namun juga menjadi cerminan mengejutkan tentang kedangkalan dan keganasan dunia di mana manusia saling memakan sesamanya]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kali ini Coelho mengajak kita bercermin tentang tujuan dan arti hidup dengan latar belakang kehidupan &quot;normal&quot;, masa sekarang.<br/><br/>Tidak ada gembala pengembara Andalusia, tidak ada Raja Salem, tidak ada penyihir dari Portobello.<br/><br/>Manusia-manusia dengan berbagai latar belak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69537170">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<blockquote> <p> The beloved, bestselling international author of <em>The Alchemist</em> returns with another haunting novel—a thrilling journey into our constant fascination with the worlds of fame, fortune, and celebrity. </p> </blockquote> <p> A profound meditation on personal power and innocent dreams that are manipulated or undone by success, <em>The Winner Stands Alone</em> is set in the exciting worlds of fashion and cinema. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours during the Cannes Film Festival, it is the story of Igor, a successful, driven Russian entrepreneur who will go to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love—his ex-wife, Ewa. Believing that his life with Ewa was divinely ordained, Igor once told her that he would destroy whole worlds to get her back. The conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges, and as the novel unfolds, morality is derailed. </p> <p> Meet the players and poseurs behind the scenes at Cannes—the &quot;Superclass&quot; of producers, actors, designers, and supermodels, as well as the aspiring starlets, has-been stars, and jaded hangers-on. Adroitly interweaving the characters' stories, Paulo Coelho uses his twelfth novel to paint an engrossing picture of a world overrun by glamour and excess, and shows us the possibly dire consequences of our obsession with fame. </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[aku tidak pernah tidak menyukai buku Paulo Coelho, termasuk juga The Winner Stands Alone. Paulo tidak pernah kehilangan kharismanya dalam kata-kata. kekuatan Paulo, menurutku, ada di dialog hati yang membuat tokoh-tokohnya seolah bernafas bersama kita.<br/><br/>Paulo adalah penulis yang tidak sela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81380432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel focuses on the world of fame, film and power. Are closely intertwined by love and death, over its pages we'll ask if we were not all on the edge as the protagonist Igor to give free play to our darkest desires and our imagination makes overflow Cannes made an imaginary, but the Cannes sam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73036951">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Coelho's third person P.O.V. seems like Rod Serling narrating a TV documentary about the lifestyles of supermodels, film distributors, actors, billionaires, trophy wives and police detectives. His calculated tone may seem to some readers to have a forced and highly subjective tone. For me, this meas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70038020">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A new style for Coelho - Realism rather than Magical Realism or Spiritual Fantasy.  His most realistic work yet.  So much that it almost seems pessimistic and 'gothic', but it isn't...just 'life-like'. The book is not pessimistic because most characters keep seeking 'the light' as best they can, jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64775253">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The new addition to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2807238-maybelle-victor?shelf=coelho-collection">my Coelho collection</a>, &quot;The Winner Stands Alone&quot; is about drama in real life.  At its simplest, it’s about situations where we usually say, “one thing that led to another” but at its reflective level, its about “people who bend reason to understand situations tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73619945">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kesuksesan adalah racun yang penuh godaan.<br/><br/>Berlatarbelakang Festival Film Cannes, The Winner Stands Alone bukan hanya cerita tentang kemewahan dan dunia glamour para bintang, namun juga menuntun kita ke dalam perenungan dalam tentang kekuatan mimpi-mimpi kita serta nilai-nilai yang kita gunakan untuk mengukur diri sendiri.<br/><br/>Selama 24 jam kita diajak mengikuti jejak langkah Igor, pengusaha telekomunikasi kaya raya dari Rusia, yang merasa terpukul setelah ditinggal istrinya, dan memutuskan untuk menarik perhatian sang mantan istri dengan sebuah rencana gila. Dalam prosesnya, Igor bersilang jalan dengan Gabriela, aktris muda dan ambisius; Jasmine, model dari Rwanda yang menjadi pengungsi di Eropa; Javits, produser berpengaruh dan korup; dan Hamid, pengusaha yang memulai dari bawah dan sedang berada pada puncak kejayaannya. Kemunculan Igor mengubah hidup mereka selamanya.<br/><br/>Kisah yang intens ini membawa kita ke dalam lingkup orang-orang terkenal, sukses, dan bergelimang uang, namun juga menjadi cerminan mengejutkan tentang kedangkalan dan keganasan dunia di mana manusia saling memakan sesamanya]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most provacative of all Coelho's books that I've read, but not in a warming way. It niggles into fears we all habor about how seemingly sane people can be completely and murderously insane. I also am starting to dislike how he writes . . . not naming people, but calling them by his &quot;descrip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76378383">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly not the usual tone of a Coelho novel, but a good overview of what has sadly become a universal truth - that celebrity, fame and the perceived glory of the 'Superclass' is all that is truly worthy of adoration.  Considering the 'dumbing down' of society that media and the pop culture/celebr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56546173">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Paulo Coelho is one of my favourite authors and I cant skip a book from him when it comes to the bookstores.I liked it but it didnt overwhelm me like the rest of the other books of his.Glamour, power, fame, ambition , search for happiness, fate,love, betrayal are what we see from his new writing.the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68441422">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Kesuksesan adalah racun yang penuh godaan.<br/><br/>Berlatarbelakang Festival Film Cannes, The Winner Stands Alone bukan hanya cerita tentang kemewahan dan dunia glamour para bintang, namun juga menuntun kita ke dalam perenungan dalam tentang kekuatan mimpi-mimpi kita serta nilai-nilai yang kita gunakan untuk mengukur diri sendiri.<br/><br/>Selama 24 jam kita diajak mengikuti jejak langkah Igor, pengusaha telekomunikasi kaya raya dari Rusia, yang merasa terpukul setelah ditinggal istrinya, dan memutuskan untuk menarik perhatian sang mantan istri dengan sebuah rencana gila. Dalam prosesnya, Igor bersilang jalan dengan Gabriela, aktris muda dan ambisius; Jasmine, model dari Rwanda yang menjadi pengungsi di Eropa; Javits, produser berpengaruh dan korup; dan Hamid, pengusaha yang memulai dari bawah dan sedang berada pada puncak kejayaannya. Kemunculan Igor mengubah hidup mereka selamanya.<br/><br/>Kisah yang intens ini membawa kita ke dalam lingkup orang-orang terkenal, sukses, dan bergelimang uang, namun juga menjadi cerminan mengejutkan tentang kedangkalan dan keganasan dunia di mana manusia saling memakan sesamanya]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kurang terlalu excited pas baca buku ini.<br/><br/>Entah kenapa, pas baca buku ini tuh ga seantusias baca buku2 Paulo Coelho yang lain... Bacanya bingung, soalnya karakter yang ditampilin terlalu rame. Selain itu aku juga ga suka settingnya, Festival Film Cannes yang glamour... Tapi diluar itu sem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81022879">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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