I Know Slovenia Where Veronika Decides to Die

by Tamerlie Philippe
“Honestly, she thought, no one ever knows where Slovenia is.”
I used to belong to that group of people and I knew nothing about Slovenia. 
In Veronika Decides to Die, a novel written by Paulo Coelho, the story is centered around the titular character , a young Slovene who tries to commit suicide. She’s neither depressed, ill, nor scorned, but simply feels life has nothing to offer. 
On the surface Veronika appears to have a fine life, yet she makes the decision to end her life taking an overdose of sleeping pills. After she takes the pills she sees a magazine article "Wher...