The Zahir

The Zahir is a novel by the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho . It was published in 2005 under the original title O Zahir. The German version was published by Diogenes Verlag that same year .

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The Zahir tells the story of a man whose wife disappears. It is unclear whether she was kidnapped or whether she made off with a younger lover. The question of why Esther disappeared without a word fills the man's mind to the point of obsession. Esther became a Zahir: "A Zahir is something that, once you have touched it or seen it, never forgets it again and that occupies our entire thinking to the point of madness". The abandoned one realizes that only if he finds Esther again can he defeat the Zahir. An inner and outer journey begins, at the end of which must be love.

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Paulo Coelho: O Zahir. Editorial Rocco, Rio de Janeiro 2005, ISBN 85-325-1819-2 .
Paulo Coelho: The Zahir. Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-23580-1 (translated by Maralde Meyer-Minnemann ).
- The Zahir. Audio book. Abridged version. Diogenes, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-257-80000-2 (5 CDs, read by Christian Brückner ).