The Zahir

By Paulo Coelho

Categories: Literature & Fiction

A successful novelist living in Paris learns that his wife, Esther, a war correspondent, has vanished without explanation. The police suspect him, and he becomes obsessed with understanding why she left and where she has gone. His search leads him from France to Spain, Croatia and the steppes of Kazakhstan. Paulo Coelho writes about love, loss and obsession, and about breaking free of the stories that shape our lives.

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