内容简介
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.
保罗·科埃略一九四七年出生于里约热内卢市一个中产阶级家庭，少年时期便立志成为像若热·亚马多一样成功的职业作家。在从事文学创作之前，曾担任过编剧、剧场导演和记者，为巴西最著名的摇滚乐歌星创作过《减生于一万年之前》 等六十余首歌词。后沉迷于研究炼金术，魔法、吸血鬼等神秘事物，作为媒皮士 周游世界，与一些秘密团体和东方宗教社会有过接触。一九八二年自行出版了《地狱档案》一书，但未曾引起任何反响。一九八五年又出版《吸血鬼研究实践手册》一书，但后又收回，理由是他本人认为《The Zahir》“质量低劣”。一九七七年，在周游世界时他参加了一个名叫拉姆的天主教组织，一九八六年，按该组织的要求， 保罗·科埃略沿中世纪三条朝圣路线之一，历时三个月，徒步行走近六百公里的 路程，从法国南部穿越比利牛斯山脉，抵达西班牙加利西亚地区孔波斯泰尔的圣地亚哥朝圣。他以这次朝圣之旅为素材，于翌年出版《朝...
豆瓣评论