Another novel by Paulo Coelho. After reading books like The Alchemist, Eleven minutes, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept etc., this book had created a great expectation. Did it satisfy that expectation? You can guess that for yourself by the end of this review.
It is a story (?) happened long long ago maybe around the early AD times and the crusaders are planning to invade Jerusalam. People are in fear and everyone has so many questions about life – about what they did and what they chose and what the lost. There comes Copt, a learned person to answer all their questions just before they all are invaded. And with this each chapter have a question and an answer to it in few pages. It covers various topics right from friend, enemy, anxiety, loyalty, love, fear etc.
The entire novel is like reading a collection of words/ quotes of wisdom. There is just a small 3 – 4 lines about the person who asks the question apart from that it could no way be said that it is a novel.
I’m not sure if those collections of quotes really have any connection to the manuscript of Accra as he has named it or explained in the preface. Personally – disappointed. But as a philosophical book I like quite a number of quotes.
Score: 3/5 (for the quotes and NOT (no) story)
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