Veronika Decides to Die

Veronika is young, pretty, and seemingly has everything to live for — a steady job, a comfortable life in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana, and men who desire her. And yet, on an ordinary November morning, she decides to end her life.

She survives the attempt and wakes in Villete, a notorious mental hospital, where she is told that the overdose has irreparably damaged her heart and she has only a few days left to live. Facing certain death, and surrounded by patients the world has labeled insane, Veronika begins — for the first time — to truly feel, to question the narrow conventions that shaped her, and to discover how much life can be lived in the time that remains.

Part of Paulo Coelho's "On the Seventh Day" trilogy, this novel is a searching meditation on madness, conformity, and the value of every ordinary day.