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Before James Redfield there was Coelho, whose fiction laden with spiritual messages has proved more popular overseas than here. (The Alchemist, first published in Brazil in 1988 and here in 1993, glanced PW's paperback bestseller list but has sold two million copies in South America.) Though likely to please the author's fans, this new novel, a didactic love story set in modern-day Spain, may not extend his reach. Its heroine is Pilar, 28, who, in the company of her former boyfriend, learns over the course of seven days that "the spiritual path is traveled by means of the daily experience of love." That may be music to Coelho devotees, but others will note the surrounding cacophony-the incessant lapsing from narrative into lecture; the stilted characters, who lack motive and verisimilitude (after 10 years of separation, the ex, a former seminarian, now an esteemed miracle worker, invites Pilar for coffee and declares his love for her). Coelho's message, though, informed by his adherence to the Roman Catholic sect of the Order of Ram, is invariably heartfelt and challenging, emphasizing the feminine aspects of the divine and the charismatic aspects of worship. "Some day," Pilar learns, "people would realize... that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesize and understand." Whether that understanding will encompass Coelho's reasons for sacrificing dramatic integrity to polemic, and for insisting on cloaking sermons in fictional trappings, remains to be seen. $75,000 ad/promo.
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Coelho's The Alchemist (1994) was a surprise smash and made him the second most widely read Latin American author (after Gabriel Garcia Marquez). Here he offers another parable, this time about love, both personal and transcendent. The story's heroine, Pilar, remeets an old childhood friend, a charismatic seminarian who centers his devotion on Mary and the feminine face of God. Pilar, who has deliberately chosen a narrow life, is literally swept away by her unnamed friend as he takes her on a trip to the French Pyrenees. Each must search their hearts to discover whether the love they want to share can become compatible with the young man's vocation. Although the story has its charming and vibrant aspects, it is also occasionally muddled, especially in its theology, which is only vaguely explained. Readers will have only the dimmest sense of how (and, for that matter, why) the young man is torn between heaven and earth. Given that lack of definition, it's no real surprise when the couple gets together at the end. Still, the path they take to get there has a few interesting twists and turns, and Coelho's familiar message about the spirituality of love will please his devoted following. Ilene Cooper
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1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE book by an AMAZING author, Jan 24 2007
This review is from: By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness (Paperback)
Wow was I sorely disappointed in this book. Previous to this book I had read "The Alchemist", and "Veronika Decides to Die" which were both extremely well written books. In fact "The Alchemist" is now a top my favorites list. This book was an excruciating read, and had nothing interesting to say whatsoever. I had to rush through it because I cannot leave a book, however bad unread, but I definitely regret purchasing and reading this book. If are you are going through Coelho's booklist do not leave this book `til last as it will leave a sour taste in your mouth. Do not let this sway you from Coelho's other books. I simply do not understand how someone could like this book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Love that worht everything, Jun 7 2004
By Daniel Lozada (Montebello Adult School, Montebello CA.) - See all my reviews
Daniel Lozada-Montebello Adult School,Montebello Ca.
Love is a need of every human,we were created to love and to be loved as a human we have a strong desire to be love,we have the necesity of being loved in a special way, this story is about a young couple that found each other once again after a long separation, their encounter brought some feelings that they had when they were younger, during that separation they try to find the real love, they know that they had something in common but they didn't know what was that but it was something powerful and special that it had to be discovered in specific time and specific circumstances, the separation helped them to understand that there is just one specific person for each one of us. They learned that the real love can't be substitude by any other feeling or material things and they learned the real love is not something that comes so easy, they have to fight and persevere in order to find it. They made many mistakes but and the end of the story they knew that the real love have to be cultivated.
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4.0 out of 5 stars In the name of the love, Jun 7 2004
By Daniel Lozada (Montebello Adult School, Montebello CA.) - See all my reviews
Yanina Mussio:Montebello Adult School,Montebello CA.
The Story about two lovers that fought hard in order to be together, the circunstances and the differences that they had tried to separated them even the time and the distance was against them, their furture as a couple looked uncertain. Even they were friends from the childhood and the love that they felt to each other they had to take different ways in their lives, but after a long separation onece again they were together and it was the time to fight for the real love, a love that worth everything, the wait,the suffer and the patience. Love that can overcome any circunstance and bring together all the feelings and mixed them to create a love that will persevere for the rest of the life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN &WEPT
In my personal opinion, I love this story because they find the way to be together and fight to accomplish their goals. Read more
Published on Jun 3 2004 by Rosa Franco

5.0 out of 5 stars The love persevere
I enjoyed a lot this book. When you feel love everything is a magic moment. Of course, you shuold be sure about her or him love. Read more
Published on Jun 2 2004 by Alicia Gallardo

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Good at All!!!!
Paulo Coelho books beside being cheap reading and not a great literary work they sound the same and feel the same. Read more
Published on April 7 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Did not enjoy it!
"By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept" by Paolo Coelho deals with two childhood friends who were extremely fond of each other but were separated when the boy leaves... Read more
Published on April 1 2004 by Janice

4.0 out of 5 stars A spiritually beautiful novel
This book is beautiful, not only for those who have had a distant love, but for any of those people who dream, who live, and to those who also love. Read more
Published on Mar 4 2004 by Laudan Tehrani

5.0 out of 5 stars Spirituality
I am not a writer myself, as my review will clearly show, but I must say this. This was a truly excellent book, and I've already recommended it to 4 other people. Read more
Published on Oct 28 2003 by liquidpophybrid

2.0 out of 5 stars Credibility Anyone???
This author came highly recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I trust. Instead of starting out with his most celebrated book the Alchemist, I picked up this one. Read more
Published on Jul 21 2003 by Anna Ryklina

3.0 out of 5 stars I did weep at the end
After reading the Alchemist, I was ready to sit down and enjoy my second Paulo Coelho book. and sure enough, the start of this story drew me in like a moth to a flame. Read more
Published on Jul 12 2003 by Cedric Chang

4.0 out of 5 stars a fable about opening our hearts to miracles
Maybe some of you who read before Coelho expect this book to be another fable. It is true, 'By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept' can be considered a fable, as well as a love... Read more
Published on May 9 2003 by Irina Iacobescu

4.0 out of 5 stars Mesmerising
I received this book as a gift from a friend of mine, who told me it would teach me what love is like. I have since read it several times over; it is truly phenomenal. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2003 by Jake Spooky

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