A Profound Meditation On Personal Power And Innocent Dreams That Are Manipulated Or Undone By Success The Winner Stands Alone Is Set In The Exciting Worlds Of Fashion And Cinema. Taking Place Over The Course Of Twenty-Four Hours During The Cannes Film Festival It Is The Story Of Igor A Successful Driven Russian Entrepreneur Who Will Go To The Darkest Lengths To Reclaim A Lost Love His Ex-Wife Ewa. Believing That His Life With Ewa Was Divinely Ordained Igor Once Told Her That He Would Destroy Whole Worlds To Get Her Back. The Conflict Between An Individual Evil Force And Society Emerges And As The Novel Unfolds Morality Is Derailed. Meet The Players And Poseurs Behind The Scenes At Cannes The Superclass Of Producers Actors Designers And Supermodels As Well As The Aspiring Starlets Has-Been Stars And Jaded Hangers-On. Adroitly Interweaving The Characters Stories Paulo Coelho Uses His Twelfth Novel To Paint An Engrossing Picture Of A World Overrun By Glamour And Excess And Shows Us The Possibly Dire Consequences Of Our Obsession With Fame.
