By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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By Paulo Coelho

Pilar has built a careful, independent life and has stopped expecting much from it. Then a childhood friend she has not seen in eleven years invites her to hear him speak; he has become a seminarian with a reputation for healing, and he is about to take vows.

They travel together through the Pyrenees for a week, and both of them have to decide what they are prepared to give up. The first book of the And on the Seventh Day trilogy.

First published 1994