《波多贝罗的女巫》介绍了:雅典娜，一个和智慧女神同名的普通吉卜赛女子，因为从小表现出的异常禀赋而披上神秘的光辉，也因此招致普遍的怀疑与猜忌。她自由不羁，离经叛道，无惧传统成见，远赴东方学习书法，去伦敦波多贝罗街头迷狂舞蹈……岁月回溯，碎片重新拼接，通过前夫、神甫、生母、房东、记者、邻居的眼睛，串成一个寻访心灵故园的望乡故事，打开一个鲜为人知的惆怅世界……
Paulo Coelho, one of the world's best loved storytellers, is back with a riveting new novel set in London. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine, to give her the name she was baptised with. Her life is pieced together through a series of recorded interviews with those people who knew her well or hardly at all -- parents, colleagues, teachers, friends, acquaintances, her ex-husband. The novel unravels Athena's mysterious beginnings, via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut. When war breaks out, her adoptive family move with her to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs! Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. Like The Alchemist, The Witch of Portobello is the kind of story that will transform the way readers think about love, passion, joy and sacrifice. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
保罗·柯艾略（Paulo Coelho），著名作家，1947出生于巴西里约热内卢。
少年时代，因叛逆，被视为精神疾病受到三次电击治疗；青年时代，因反对政治独裁，被投进监狱；1986年，38岁的他踏上去往圣城圣地亚哥之路，心灵顿悟。
从1987年的《朝圣》开始，18部作品以68种文字出版、655个版本全球在160多个国家和地区出版发行，销售总量超过1亿册，荣获国际大奖无数，被誉为“唯一能够与马尔克斯比肩，拥有最多读者的拉美作家”。
以博大悲悯的心胸、奇绝独特的视角、清澈如水的文字，将哲学沉思、宗教奇迹、童话寓言熔为一体，感动了全球上至各国政要、国际巨星，下至平民百姓、贩夫走卒在内的数以亿计的读者，甚至目不识丁的人，也对他的文字世界无限神往。2007年，由于作品在全球形成的深远影响力，被任命为联合国和平大使。
2006年，本书震撼问世，被迅速翻译成44种...