Paulo Coelho transports us back in time to relive the dream of a generation that yearned for peace and dared to question the established social order?authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behaviour, excessive consumerism, and an unbalanced concentration of wealth and power?in Hippie, his most autobiographical book to date. Hippie paradises started to appear all over the world after the "three days of peace and music" at Woodstock, the 1969 event in Bethel, New York, which would change the world forever. Long-haired young individuals with colourful clothing and incense were meditating, playing music, and talking about sexual liberation, expanding awareness, and seeking an inner truth in Amsterdam's Dam Square. They belonged to a generation that rejected a life of robotics.