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In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling writer of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings alive one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The storyline of her famous yet inexplicable life as an spectacular dancer and courtesan, and her questionable execution as a spy through the First World Battle, unfolds as a fascinating first-person narrative of self-creation and bravery. Her only criminal offenses was to be an independent female: "I do not know if the near future will remember me, but if it should, may nobody ever view me as a victim but as a person who moved forward with courage and paid the purchase price she needed to pay." Within the occasion of the centenary of Mata Hari's execution for espionage in 1917, Paulo Coelho reconsiders her life and personality in a imaginary memoir. In a series of words written from prison on the eve of her loss of life, Mata Hari reflects on the options she has made to always go after her own fact - from her years as a child in a little Dutch town to unhappy years as the partner of the alcoholic diplomat in Java to her calculated and self-fashioned go up to superstar in Paris and across Europe as an spectacular dancer and confidante to the most powerful men of the time. Though there is little information to incriminate her, Mata Hari was struggling to avoid persecution and prosecution by French military services intelligence, with the novel's end Coelho re-creates your final letter, written by Mata Hari's attorney, Edouard Clunet, that offers a captivating view of Europe at battle and the fatal price of suspicion.
