No, no, not the one by Paulo Coelho that is so well known. A less well known Alchemist by Donna Boyd. It begins with a finely dressed and mannered man in modern times telling his life story to a therapist. The book follows his story, which begins in ancient Egypt when he was a boy named Han who had been taken from his parents to learn the art of alchemy, or magic. He and his best friends, Akan and Nefar, are the best students at the school and the most skeptical. They learn what they think is the biggest secret of the place and it changes their futures. The book is creepy and violent at times and yet very compelling. Near the middle I had an idea of what might be revealed at the end, but it was just the surface. I recommend this book to people who are not squirmish and who are open to reading about magic without taking it too seriously.
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