Coelho is posting one chapter a week of the book on his blog before its release on February 20, 2007. One-fourth of the book will available online before the release.
The chapters are being posted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and Italian, in addition to Hungarian.
Readers of the blog, at www.paulocoelhoblog.com, may post comments about the book, although they are asked to write only in English. Coelho will respond to the comments personally.
Alternatively described as an alchemist of words and a genius of mass culture, Paulo Coelho is one of the most widely-read authors in the world today. His books have been translated into 62 languages and more than 75 million have been sold in 150 countries. Alone in Hungary, sales of his books have reached 400,000.
Coelho started his blog last year, after repeating a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela he made in 1986, described in his book "Pilgrimage".
