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An Andalusian shepherd boy travels from Spain to the Egyptian pyramids following a recurring dream, learning that the treasure he seeks was always within reach.
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Siddhartha
A young Brahmin leaves home to seek enlightenment, passing through wealth, love, and despair before finding wisdom by a river.
Journey to the East
H. H., a musician, recalls his part in a secret League's pilgrimage to the East, a journey across time and imagination that fell apart when the humble servant Leo vanished.
The Prophet
A departing sage offers parables on love, work, freedom, pain, and death to the people who have sheltered him for twelve years.
The Little Prince
A pilot downed in the Sahara meets a small prince from an asteroid who has left his beloved rose, and learns that what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie, an eighty-three-year-old maintenance man at a seaside amusement park, dies trying to save a little girl from a falling cart, and wakes in an afterlife where five people from his life, some of them strangers, explain what it meant.
The Shack
Years after his youngest daughter was abducted on a family camping trip, with evidence that she was murdered in an abandoned shack in the Oregon wilderness, Mack Phillips finds a note in his mailbox, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
The Childhood of Jesus
A man called Simón and a boy called David arrive by boat in Novilla, a city whose people have been washed clean of their memories, and Simón sets out to find the boy's mother.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
On a July day in 1714 the finest bridge in Peru breaks and five travellers fall to their deaths, and Brother Juniper, who saw it happen, sets out to prove it was the will of God.
The Pilgrim Kamanita
In ancient India, the merchant's son Kamanita tells a wandering monk the story of his love for a courtesan, not knowing the monk is the Buddha, and his journey continues beyond death.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
A battery hen named Sprout escapes the coop, raises a wild duckling as her own, and gives everything to see it fly.
Life of Pi
When the ship carrying his family's zoo sinks, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel is left adrift in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and has to find a way to survive with him.
Animal Farm
Animals overthrow their farmer and establish an egalitarian society that gradually becomes a dictatorship worse than the one they replaced.