The book is about a boy who travels across the desert to find an alchemist. Giabroni: "He thought I can learn something from the desert too" The author says he was inspired by Robert Langdon's work, but this one isn't quite like that.
We've covered vaguely spiritual self-help books before on the show, but The Alchemist is unique insofar as it attempts to wrap the broad platitudes of a The Secret up in a there-and-back-again adventure story. Please listen, as long as it fits with your Personal Legend.