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.

保羅·柯艾略（Paulo Coelho）：

著名作傢，1947年齣生於巴西裏約熱內盧。

從《朝聖》開始，20餘部作品陸續被翻譯成71種語言，在160多個國傢和地區齣版發行，總計銷量已超過1.15億冊，榮獲國際大奬無數，以博大寬宏的心胸、清澈如水的文字，將哲學沉思、宗教奇跡、童話寓言熔為一爐，抒寫瞭無數感動世界的篇章，在世間揮灑智慧、理想和愛的光芒。

由於其巨大影響， 2007年，被聯閤國任命為和平大使。

2009年，代錶作《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》因“齣版語種最多”創造“吉尼斯世界紀錄”。