Loved the story and every metaphor used to help individuals leg go and attract what we want in life. Such a powerful and positive perspective on life in such negative environment. Only Paulo can do that.

I have no words to describe how good this book is. You will have to read it for yourself 😉

I personally loved it, i read some other reviews saying at 22 how could she understand what love was and did what she did. But again, wouldn’t be surprised that for people that take longer to mature and expect everyone to be the same as them. They have a little knowledge of other places around the world and that everything’s different than our own place. Age does not equal maturity. Fairytale? No, that’s life outside our normal life environment. This is a great story, and so far one of the nicest books I’ve read.

I loved it.

So hard to put it down. This book is the realization that although things are not perfect is never too late to go on and do what your hearts tells you to do. This is book is real. This book is magic. Thank you, Coelho.

Brutally honest dive into the world of temptation and the battle of separation of body and soul, sex and love, touch and intimacy that will educate all.

Fairy tale situations. No girl at twenty two can understand love, behave as she did and capture the admiration from this man. Paulo, is begining to do so at his age...

I love this book. Paulo is brilliant. A must read. It's such a wonderful story.

This was one of my favourite book by paulo.

I first heard of Paulo in high school when we were reading 'the Alchemist'. I enjoyed it and wanted to explore more books by him. I bought 'Brida' but after the first chapter I pretty knew what was going to happen so fail. Then on iTunes I bought 'By the River I Sat Down & Wept' never finished it because I got hooked on to 'Eleven Minutes'. It's so live I feel like I'm right there with Maria. Truly an amazing book. Thank you Paulo :)