TY - BOOK AU - Coelho,Paulo AU - Clarke,Alan TI - By the River Piedra I sat down and wept SN - 0062513982 (cloth) U1 - 869.3 20 PY - 1996/// CY - [San Francisco, CA] PB - HarperSanFrancisco KW - Pyrenees KW - Fiction KW - Love stories KW - gsafd N1 - Originally published: Rio de Janeiro : Editora Rocca, c1994 N2 - "The story of a young Spanish woman, Pilar, and her encounter with her lost love, an unnamed spiritual seeker who comes to worship the feminine face of God. Clarke's translation is, as usual, somewhat hurried and condensed as if he's impatient with Coelho's admittedly belabored and self-consciously poetical style"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 ER -