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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness by Paulo Coelho
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

by Paulo Coelho

Series: And on the Seventh Day (book 1)

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HarperSanFrancisco (1996), Hardcover, 224 pages

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No es uno de mis favoritos, me gusto mucho la historia sobre como el amor se impone y el deseo de ver realizados los sueños de ambos, muy buena autoayuda como siempre, pero no se siento que le falto algo de trama. No me senti del todo conectada. Total es bueno nada mas. ( )
  mesalina | Nov 5, 2009 |
My first Coelho book. Initially I thought it was great. The story was relatively easy to follow, about a young woman taking a pilgrimage, the plot centering around her physical and spiritual journey. I'll be honest, I felt very noble and clever reading it, but as I went on, I found myself less able to describe what I learned from the book. This is the kind of book you definitely have to read twice (well for me at least) and THINK about, if you want to appreciate it. ( )
  unlikelyaristotle | Aug 5, 2009 |
This is one in a number of books I am reading written by this author I am trying to read them all , and so far I have liked all of them I have read. This was a very good book different than anything I have read before, I would recommend you read some of this authors books , simple and to the point but with a good message, this actually left me wanting to read it again. You have to watch his books thought(lol) sometimes they seem to turn up right when you need to hear what they are saying. ;0) ( )
  averitasm | Jul 5, 2009 |
A strange book centring predominantly around love and faith. The plot – about a girl taking a risk and following the man she loves into a new life – quickly becomes unclear, while the spiritual messages dotted throughout her journey are obviously ideas intended to provoke thought in the reader. Much is made, for example, of the Virgin Mary being a divine goddess, and the idea that God in any form must be a woman. Unlike The Alchemist, where the story and final message are clear, this is more subtle. I actually found it rather moving, though with an inadequate ending. ( )
  elliepotten | Jun 10, 2009 |
Profound as all Coelho's works seem to be, I think I enjoyed it even more than the Alchemist, either that or I came to it with an aded layer of maturity. ( )
  susanpenter | Apr 24, 2009 |
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But wisdom is justified by all her children - Luke 7:35
Dedication
For I. C. and S. B, whose loving communion made me see the feminine face of God; for Monica Antunes, my companion from the beginning, who with her love and enthusiasm spreads the fire all over the world; for Paulo Rocco, for the joy of the battles we have fought together and for the dignity of the battles we have fought between us; and for Matthew Lore, for not having forgotten a sage quotation from the I Ching: "Perseverance is favorable."
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By the river Piedra I sat down and wept.
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Every day, God gives us the sun - and also one moment in
which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't
perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist - that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perfom miracles.
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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Tijdens ten reis van een week door de Pyreneeën onlmoel Pilar, een studente uit Bar-treluna, een jeugdvriend van wie zij altijd is blijven houden. Ucze vriend koestert gelijke gevoelens voor haar,maar zijn probleem is-dal hij op het punt staat zich tot priester te laten wijden.
Via deze aangrijpende liefdesgeschiedenis toont Coelho ons Je vrouwelijke kant van (iod. Dit prachtige boek werpt een ander - ; licht op de kracht van de liefde en de ervaring van het spirituele.
De Braziliaan Paulo Coelho (1947) is essayist en romanschrijver. Bij De Arbeiderspers verscheen naast Aan de oevers van de Piedra huilde ik onder meer: De alchemist, een van de best verkochte boeken ter wereld. De vijfde berg en Veronika besluit Ie sterven,
Aan de oever van de Piedra huilde ik is te n wonderbaarlijk boek, vol mysterie en licht.
-OSCAR HIJELOS

Amazon.com (ISBN 0061122092, Paperback)

This first United States paperback of By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept comes after huge worldwide sales of the novel of faith, romance, miracles, and the importance of following the heart's true path. The inspirational tale follows Pilar, a young woman from the Spanish countryside who, sparked by the teachings of a now-mysterious man she has known and loved since childhood, leaves her graduate studies and embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage through the Pyrenees Mountains and reevaluates her life and her future. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, is considered to be one of the most widely-read Latin American writers in the world.

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