The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho

The Book The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession is a novel by the world well-known Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho. The novel turned into at the beginning written in the author’s local language, Portuguese.

The book is set on a pilgrimage. It offers the subject matters of love, obsession, and loss.

This book is taken into consideration to be a follow-directly to the author’s earlier book The Alchemist. The means of the title, The Zahir, is “the obvious. ” The tale is narrated from a first-character perspective.

A bestselling novelist lost his spouse Esther. Although he enjoys the luxuries introduced to him by cash and fame, he’s unhappy because of his missing spouse and is going on a look for her. Meanwhile, the police suspect his hand withinside the disappearance of his spouse.

Amidst the chaos, the narrator appears lower back at his very own existence to have a look at what went incorrect that made his spouse disappear. During a book launch, he encounters Esther’s friend Mikhail. From him, the narrator learns that Esther left him searching for peace as she couldn’t discover one with him. Knowing that his spouse left him searching for locating peace, the narrator realizes that so he can discover his spouse and get lower back to her, he needs to look for his very own self. So, the narrator begins offevolved his pilgrimage in the quest of locating himself.

The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession turned into posted via way of means of Harper as a new version in the year 2005. It is to be had in paperback.

Key Features

This book turned into translated into forty-four languages. The book has sold more than 30 million copies.