Alchemist is about a poor shepherd boy who searches for his dream and after lot of waiting and sufferings he achieves it. Alchemist has a very good twist to the tale I have ever seen in any novel.
Here there is a boy who is basically from a business family, but he out of his like to explore the world leaves his family and takes animal gazing has his profession. Here he gets dream about a treasure been buried some where near pyramid.
He goes searching for the treasure and come to Egypt where he is robbed, but he still doesn’t give up and works in a crystal shop where he again gets the same dream and goes in the deserts to search for the dream.
Here he meets a girl whom he falls in love and almost give up his dream, but the girls tells him to follow his dream.
And at last he gets to the pyramids where he his robbed again by the lost soldiers for any valuables and there he mocked to be fool when he told his dream.
Well there is no treasure in pyramids, but here where is the twist. For knowing it read the book you would really like it