Zahir
(Paulo Coelho)
The last book of Paulo Coelho, the world famous brazilian writer published in 150 countries,is arrived on Spring 2005.It is devoted to the search of the real nature of the love, a wild power destroying us if we try to control it or making us slaves if you try to lock up . His third wife ,Esther,,journalist of war just returned from Iraq, disappeared from Paris with her passeport and after the withdrawal of some money from the bank. If the formal investigation of the police frees the writer from any responsibility he is forced to explore three alternative reasons of this diappearence, the rape or the trap by an informer or a spontaneous forsaking owing to another younger man. He must recognize the first two conjectures are very weak, the first because she clearly prepared the departure, the second because she was used to inform the husband about the details of her dangerous activity. Notwithstanding a male reluctance the husband must admit the third alternative is the most likely even because he remembers her different attitude after the meeting with a man whose he know the name, Mikhail,the age, five years younger of the wife, and the task of interpreter in some Asian countries. But is it enough to broke a marriage ten years old and a deep reciprocal disclosure? Esther becomes the zahir, a word with different possible meanings but in the symbolic mind of Coelho, a reason of his charm,only the obsession of understanding the unexpected change of his wife. The writer will find Mikhail even living and working in Paris as actor of some strange shows of personal energy: Mikahail willl become a precious ally informed about the destination of his wife, a middleman in the interpretation of events and in the preparation of a long journey to Croatia and to Kazakhistan to meet maybe Esther in the steppe:it will happen in the Tengri area, where Tengri means a religion without religion, the belief of the nomads God is in each place and in each time.
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