By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho

'By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river-leaves, insects, the feathers of birds- is transformed in to the rocks that made riverbeds.' Even these very first lines of this novel are very interesting one.

After reading the book, 'The Alchemist,' I was very much inspired and thought of reading one more book of Paulo Coelho. This book with the lengthy title, 'By the River Piedra I sat down and wept,' caught in to my eye as I wandered through the library. This is the first part in Coelho's trilogy, 'On the seventh day.'

Pilar, a young woman was a main character in this story. Her age was not exactly mentioned in the story but it was given that, she was a college student. So we may assume her age as in nearly or the early twenties. Pilar met her childhood friend after ten years, whose name was not noted in the book.

Together take a journey for six days. The story starts on Saturday, December 4, 1993. Pilar was told by her old friend about his experience he had passed in his life. Pilar was amazed by the miracle-doing power her boyfriend had. In the later part, her boyfriend told his love on her. At first, it seemed she was not interested, but after they reached the River Piedra, Pilar got answer to many of her questions and she decides to travel with him forever.

Paulo wrote this whole book sentimentally and with some little humor. Many chapters of this book were written in poetry and are an amazing. When Pilar begin fall in love, she expressed her emotions fantastically as, 'I opened the window and my heart. The sun flooded the room and love inundated my soul.'

After finished reading, I was not amazed why this has been translated in to fifty-six languages. The unique- distinctive style of Paulo Coelho was the main reason for this success, and that was an amazing one.