The beloved, bestselling international author of "The Alchemist" returns with another haunting novel--a thrilling journey into our constant fascination with the worlds of fame, fortune, and celebrity. A profound meditation on personal power and innocent dreams that are manipulated or undone by success, "The Winner Stands Alone" is set in the exciting worlds of fashion and cinema. Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours during the Cannes Film Festival, it is the story of Igor, a successful, driven Russian entrepreneur who will go to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love--his ex-wife, Ewa. Believing that his life with Ewa was divinely ordained, Igor once told her that he would destroy whole worlds to get her back. The conflict between an individual evil force and society emerges, and as the novel unfolds, morality is derailed. Meet the players and poseurs behind the scenes at Cannes--the "Superclass" of producers, actors, designers, and supermodels, as well as the aspiring starlets, has-been stars, and jaded hangers-on. Adroitly interweaving the characters' stories, Paulo Coelho uses his twelfth novel to paint an engrossing picture of a world overrun by glamour and excess, and shows us the possibly dire consequences of our obsession with fame.
保罗·柯艾略（Paulo Coelho）：
著名作家，1947年出生于巴西里约热内卢。
从《朝圣》开始，20余部作品陆续被翻译成71种语言，在160多个国家和地区出版发行，总计销量已超过1.15亿册，荣获国际大奖无数，以博大宽宏的心胸、清澈如水的文字，将哲学沉思、宗教奇迹、童话寓言熔为一炉，抒写了无数感动世界的篇章，在世间挥洒智慧、理想和爱的光芒。
由于其巨大影响， 2007年，被联合国任命为和平大使。
2009年，代表作《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》因“出版语种最多”创造“吉尼斯世界纪录”。