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The ZahirThe Zahir by Paulo Coelho


The first question that comes to mind when reading this book is what does the title mean? Well you won't be able to pin it down unless you attempt to check the book. But Here is a brief definition at least my understanding of the word "zahir" ; it's the feeling of something or someone's presence that occupies our full attention and we're unable to think of something else, I like to compare it to one's urgent need to go to the Lavatory and he/ she get cought up in a conversation that he can not under any circumstances end it or be excused so he can never consontrate on what's going on and can never get the physical need out of his mind, thus leading to madness or holiness (sorry for the comparison but it's quite accurate hhhhhhh)

This book tells the story of a man who wakes up one day to find his wife (Esther) has gone missing and he doesn't have the slightest clue on where the hell did she go. He deduced that she run away with another man whose name is (Mikhail).
After 2 years, he meets Mikhail at his book signing and invites him over dinner as a gift for his last fan who waitd in the line for his autograph. Then the two men get together and he (the narrator) asks him where is (Esther). Mikhail has visions of a little girl and her voice who tells him to help others find love of the world or sth.
Mikhail offers to tell him where is she if he can succed to understand why she decided to leave him without a word and to teach him about (the energy of the universe and the love that needs to circulate again freely in the world).
I'm sure u can read all this on any google page, but there are certain questions in the book you can't understand unless you've read the book like the question (Why railway tracks have the same distance between them since the Roman time? Why marriage with a set of railway tracks stay together forever but fail to come any closer?)
Also through out the book you learn about the culture and traditions of the steppes of Kazakhistan. and a lot more.
Honestly I can't say I LOVED this book as the others by P.C I have read so far but it was an Ok book and I'm gonna give it 2.5/5 stars.
But do check it out and let me know what do you thought of it.

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