Review: THE ALCHEMIST

paulo coelho gives a mysterious thriller in the form of the alchemist,it is a story about a boy santiago.he is the central character ,he dreams about a treasure near egyptian pyramids,two times,he is a shepherd having 60 sheeps to his flock.he think they understand him.he moves from town to town,wants to impress the daughter of a merchant who is the owner of dry good shop,as he arrives in tarifa meets a gypsy woman, who helps him understand his dreams for a cut in the treasure.later he meet an old king of salem who makes him understand, he should follow his dream,and continue on a journey to his destiny ,he gives him two stone Urim and Thummim.As dream are the language of the world,he sells all his sheep and takes a sea voyage in boyend, when he reaches tangier his money is stolen from him,hungary and in a strange world,he works for s crystal shop on the mountain.he finds out new way to sell tea in in a crystal glass.earns lot of money and moves forward toward his dream..gets to meet a englishmen in search of a "The Alchemist".they take a voyage towards egypt through Sahara desert.while they ate a stop at "al Fayoum Oasis".the englishman  looks for the alchemist everywhere,but does not find him.there is also a war between the tribes of the desert.but the Oasis is safe as it is considered as neutral ground.they even latter try to attack the oasis ,which is averted cause the boy had read the omen already.he falls in love with fatima ,a girl from the desert Oasis,he thinks she is his treasure.the alchemist hears about a omen reader in the oasis,and enters the oasis to find him.how ever helps him move forward towards his goal the cross path with both the tribes,some treat them friendly some try to test the boy.latter he reaches to the foot of the pyramid,finds few arabs,who beat him,to find out if he has the treasure,as one of the arab dreams about a abandoned church where the treasure is hidden where the shephard boy used to sleep in the night while roming in the andalasia terrain with his sheep.latter finds the spanish treasure in the abandon church and reaturns to her dear fatima.

my view: i think it is an excellant novel by paula coelho, but the language of the world,language of wind,sun  confuses the readers at times.it is a story about hope,and the struggle of a boy to achive his dream is short ,people and relate to. it is responsibility versus dreams,everybody on the face of this earth has to face this some time or the other.excellently written,there are many twist in the story,this is the first book from the author i have read ,so i don't have much idea about his writing style,the ups and downs in the story are quiet interesting,it teaches about god,and his ways. a must read if you ask me.