Ordered this book online on paperback. And started reading this book on free time. Believe me friends, if you love reading books, you will get so attached to this book, that you cant leave it without finishing it. The story about a sheperd boy who has a dream of watching the World unlike his fellowman, is somehow a dream of every human living in this world. But the dream gets dumped deep inside in our heard and we become busy for the worldly pleasures.
Santiago, the sheperd boy, is said to know the language of the world. It doesnt mean that he could speak to animals and plants but it means he knew how to interact with them. He knew they had life in it and all that having life are somehow the same creation one one Lord.
Overcoming all the problems he faced, all the hidrances, he know in his heart that someday he would reach his goal, if his destiny was to be there.
His finding a master and finally becoming a an Alchmist is in reality conpared with the Enlightenment of a Soul. He finds the real goal of human life.
The books is more spritual than a novel and more complex to be a story. Its for those minds who seek peace, not pleasure.
The book is a Gem.