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Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him without an explanation. The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges that money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who, despite her professional success and freedom from the conventional constraints of marriage, is facing an existential crisis. When she disappears along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover, the authorities question the narrator. Was Esther kidnapped, killed, or did she simply abandon a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail, the man with whom Esther was last seen, finds the narrator and promises to take him to his wife. In his attempt to recapture a love lost, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself. A haunting and redemptive story about the dark side of obsession, The Zahir explores its potential to both fulfill our dreams and to destroy them. It is also a thoughtful meditation on faith, celebrity, marriage -- and their relationships to freedom and creativity.… (plus d'informations)
>Un très beau livre Par Nicolas (Le blog de Menon), le 1 août 2006 (Sur Amazon.fr) 5/5 … ; (en ligne), URL : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/customer-reviews/R31A7HPYK4L853?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_sr... Un célèbre écrivain découvre que sa femme l’a quitté. Pendant des années, il tente de retrouver sa trace. Cette période de purgatoire émotionnelle est l’occasion pour lui de faire le point sur sa vie. Tentant de comprendre la décision de son épouse, il en revient à remettre en question la façon dont il l’a aimé et dont il a mené sa propre vie. Autofiction jouissant d’une belle écriture, le Zahir nous renvoie à nos propres failles et fêlures et nous donne aussi l’impression de vivre aux côtés de Coelho en sa quête de l’Amour. Un roman précieux.
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[four epigraphs] "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who turn to you. Amen".
"What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? Luke 15:4".
"ITHACA [poem] Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) translated by Rae Dalven".
"According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, the idea of the Zahir comes from Islamic tradition [...] Faubourg Saint-Pères Encyclopedia of the Fantastic (1953)".
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[...] This book is dedicated to you, Christina, my wife.
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"Her name is Esther; she is a war correspondent who has just returned from Iraq because of the imminent invasion of that country; she is thirty years old, married, without children."
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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and to commit myself to—what is best for me.
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"I placed my hands on her shoulders and blessed her just as I had been blessed."
Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of a man obsessed with finding the wife who left him without an explanation. The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges that money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who, despite her professional success and freedom from the conventional constraints of marriage, is facing an existential crisis. When she disappears along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover, the authorities question the narrator. Was Esther kidnapped, killed, or did she simply abandon a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn't have any answers but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail, the man with whom Esther was last seen, finds the narrator and promises to take him to his wife. In his attempt to recapture a love lost, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself. A haunting and redemptive story about the dark side of obsession, The Zahir explores its potential to both fulfill our dreams and to destroy them. It is also a thoughtful meditation on faith, celebrity, marriage -- and their relationships to freedom and creativity.
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Par Nicolas (Le blog de Menon), le 1 août 2006 (Sur Amazon.fr) 5/5 … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.amazon.fr/gp/customer-reviews/R31A7HPYK4L853?ref=pf_vv_at_pdctrvw_sr...
Un célèbre écrivain découvre que sa femme l’a quitté. Pendant des années, il tente de retrouver sa trace. Cette période de purgatoire émotionnelle est l’occasion pour lui de faire le point sur sa vie. Tentant de comprendre la décision de son épouse, il en revient à remettre en question la façon dont il l’a aimé et dont il a mené sa propre vie. Autofiction jouissant d’une belle écriture, le Zahir nous renvoie à nos propres failles et fêlures et nous donne aussi l’impression de vivre aux côtés de Coelho en sa quête de l’Amour. Un roman précieux.