The book The Winner Stands Alone is filled with profound thoughts on personal power and the innocent dreams that are manipulated or destroyed by success. It unfolds over a single day, in the world of fashion and cinema, at the Cannes festival.

It is the story of Igor, a successful Russian businessman, willing to go to the darkest extremes to win back his lost love, his ex-wife, Eva. He always believed that his life with her was part of a divine plan and had told her that he would destroy entire worlds to bring her back to him if he ever lost her.

As the story unfolds and morality derails, a struggle between a force of evil and society comes to the surface. In his twelfth novel, Paulo Coelho skillfully weaves the stories of his characters and paints a captivating picture of a world dominated by luxury and excess, showing us the disastrous consequences that obsession with fame can have.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]