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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.… (mais)
Um autor famoso vive com sua mulher, Esther, uma correspondente de guerra, até que ela desaparece sem deixar vestígios. Ele crê ter sido abandonado por Esther, que se torna um Zahir...
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
[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)".
Dedicatória
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
[...] This book is dedicated to you, Christina, my wife.
Primeiras palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"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."
Citações
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose—and to commit myself to—what is best for me.
Últimas palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"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.