The book takes you on an Unexpected Journey which will left you mesmerizing about the beauty and the destruction powers of the nature.
It will provide you the basic instincts that has been rendered from centuries which give some directions how to to implement those Revolutionary ideas to to evolve our civilization as the most astonishing civilization .
Its a robustly interpreted a worldwide phenomena and you must read I recommend you to read it two times because only then you can use those stories and the ideas which you can then implement in your own life so that you can be a better person
on the other side there is a small story about love in the book when the Shepherd saw Fatima for the first time .Paulo Coelho had interpreted this scene with so much delicacy that you would fall in love with that girl without even seeing her face and that's the beauty of this book you will see those roads ,those Palm trees , oasis,the ports , the mighty SAHARA desert and the crystals ,the men and the beautiful women of Arabs and you can then realise how it was back them.
I know its a fictional story but it leaves you clues that you will have to take and follow and achieve your destiny which you are destined to do and this is the main epilogue of the book go and read it .