Acclaimed writer Paulo Coelho’s new novel, The Manuscript Found In Accra, unfolds the story of an 11 AD Greek sage named Copta, who set out to discover the world and found himself in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades.

Coelho uses the manuscript from Accra, allegedly discovered in 1974 by English archaeologist W. Wilkinson, as a record of the meeting of Copta with the people of Jerusalem -a community of Christians, Arabs and Jews- just before the Crusaders’ invasion.

Using a series of parables on defeat, love, faith, bravery, friendship and beauty, the Greek sage comforts the gathered and encourages them to salvage and preserve the memory of their civilization after the eminent demise.