On the occasion of the centenary of Mata Hari's execution for espionage in 1917, Paulo Coelho reconsiders her life and character in a fictional memoir. Her only crime was to be an independent woman: "I do not know if the future will remember me, but if it should, may no one ever view me as a victim but as someone who moved forward with courage and paid the price she had to pay." The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First World War, unfolds as a fascinating first-person narrative of self-creation and bravery. Translated into 52 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (complex), Chinese (simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. Told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price. Her only crime was to be an independent woman. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. In The Spy Paulo Coelho brings to life one of history’s most enigmatic women: Mata Hari.
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