"My heart fears suffering," said the young man to the Alchemist, one night that they were looking at the sky without a moon.""Tell him that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. "And that no heart has ever suffered while he was in pursuit of his dreams." Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd, leaves in search of a treasure buried at the foot of the Pyramids. When he meets the Alchemist in the desert, he teaches him to listen to his heart, to read the signs of destiny and, above all, to go to the end of his dream. Wonderful philosophical tale for the child who sleeps in each one of us, the Alchemist has marked millions of readers. On the occasion of the thirty years of his publication in France, this anniversary edition illustrated by Christoph Niemann celebrates Paulo Coelho's iconic book and invites us to rediscover it.