By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By Paulo Coelho

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Pilar, a student in Zaragoza, agrees to meet a childhood friend who has become a spiritual teacher known for his healing gifts. He asks her to travel with him, and over a week in the French Pyrenees she finds herself falling in love. Pilar must decide whether to open herself to love and faith or hold on to the careful life she has built. Paulo Coelho's novel is the first in his trilogy And on the Seventh Day.

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