Publication Announcement Bestselling author of The Alchemist and other works Paulo Coelho has a new novel, THE SPY, based on the life of Mata Hari, on the way from a new US publisher, Knopf. Edited by Anne Messitte, the book will be published in the US on November 22, translated from the Portuguese by Zoe Perry. Vintage Español will publish as a Spanish-language hardcover. The book draws on files on Mata Hari released by intelligence agencies in Germany, Holland, and the UK: “I ended up with a mountain of documents,” Coelho says in the announcement, “but also with a question: What did Mata Hari […]
