Chapter 1 Paulo today: Budapest–Prague–Hamburg–Cairo
Chapter 2 Childhood
Chapter 3 Schooldays
Chapter 4 First play, first love
Chapter 5 First encounter with Dr Benjamim
Chapter 6 Batatinha’s début
Chapter 7 Ballad of the Clinic Gaol
Chapter 8 Shock treatment
Chapter 9 The great escape
Chapter 10 Vera
Chapter 11 The marijuana years
Chapter 12 Discovering America
Chapter 13 Gisa
Chapter 14 The Devil and Paulo
Chapter 15 Paulo and Raul
Chapter 16 A devil of a different sort
Chapter 17 Paulo renounces the Devil
Chapter 18 Cissa
Chapter 19 London
Chapter 20 Christina
Chapter 21 First meeting with Jean
Chapter 22 Paulo and Christina–publishers
Chapter 23 The road to Santiago
Chapter 24 The Alchemist
Chapter 25 The critics’ response
Chapter 26 Success abroad
Chapter 27 World fame
Chapter 28 Becoming an ‘immortal’
Chapter 29 The Zahir
Chapter 30 One hundred million copies sold