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The Winner Stands Alone
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Wikipedia article
'The Winner Stands Alone' is a novel by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, first published in 2008 under the Portuguese title 'O Vencedor est S'.
The story is set at the Cannes Film Festival and roughly based upon the growing rise of what the author calls The Superclass. While the reviewer in the Financial Times admitted that the book's background was well researched, he complained that its plotting was weak and the writing over-indulgent: "Coelho alights on all the obvious clichsand repeats them at inordinate length".Kieron Corless, [https://www.ft.com/content/ea2fb9e4-24ac-11de-9a01-00144feabdc0 Financial Times, 13 April 2009]
Plot
The loosely connected plot tells the story of several individuals: Igor, a psychopathic Russian mobile phone mogul; Ewa, formerly Igor's wife but now married to Hamid, a Middle Eastern fashion magnate; Jasmine, an African woman on the brink of a successful modeling career; American actress Gabriela, eager to land a leading film role; and an ambitious criminal detective, hoping to resolve the case of his life. The tale narrates the tension within and between the characters in a 24-hour period.
References
Category:2008 novels
Category:Novels by Paulo Coelho
Category:Brazilian thriller novels
Category:Portuguese-language novels
Category:Novels set in Provence
Category:Cannes Film Festival
Category:21st-century Brazilian novels
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