In my shelf,
many books are still in line to finish, while from last two months
when I didn't had completed any of book, I should have to feel a
self-condemnation. From last two months whenever, I picked any random
book, decided hard to read at late night and to complete the same within
one or two day; unfortunately always ends with a nap without reading
more than five or ten pages at time. But, in past two days, I have
had decided, whatever happens or whatsoever condition will be but now
I've to finish at least a book that I'm thinking of the days. This
time I have done reading “The Zahir” written by Paulo Coelho and
feel blessed to returned once again to one of my favorite author.
This
is fourth accomplished book from same author, the rest are “The
Alchemist”, “Brida”, and “Eleven minutes”. While I've
“Aleph” in my bookshelf to complete yet.
When I read the
title of this book, I thought “Zahir” is the name of storyteller; after a lot of search I feel glad that I was wrong. I searched
the meaning of “Zahir” on Google, asked few of my friends
and I came to know and according to the book, the Zahir in Arabic
means present, visible, incapable of being unnoticed. It is something
that grabs our thought, mind and spirit and demands our full
attention.
Like all of
his other books, this time this book was not of
the same superior class as was The Alchemist and Brida but still
presented some noble and elevated concepts as presented in all of his
books and perhaps is the only reason I read his books because it always tend
to feature some sort of spiritual quest to follow a kind of own
journey and in own way. I can say “The Zahir” is another
stroke of his somehow magnificence efforts.
The anonymous
storyteller of this book tells the story
of his own, who's relishing the fame and
success that his books bring and whose world suddenly comes
blooming down with the mysterious disappearance of his wife,
Esther, a war correspondent leaves him suddenly without any
information or trace of leaving. A woman who leaves her
husband with no explanation. When she disappears, he is disturbed by
the mystery of what has happened. Has she been killed, kidnapped,
or left him for another person. Confused and lost as to
why she would leave him, the protagonist is forced to confront his
reality, and with the help of an epileptic named Mikhail, begins on a
journey of self-discovery. The narrator starts his struggle to find
the reason of Esther's disappearance and eventually he realizes that
she is the one who fills his life with meaning. The book take
the reader on the discovery of love, loss, marriage and
relationships.
In this book Coelho try to take his reader through the
process of discovering what love really means, it is not only a
physical relationship, while it is a typical stereotype that need to
represent from both side.
The story not
touched my heart like as of The Alchemist or Brida, but it bring me
to a point of enlightenment. Apart to that I like all the short
stories which comes in the middle of book. A great book for anyone
struggling with attachment or ownership of something that you love.
The best
lines I like from this book are -:
“The most
important part in a human relationship is a conversation, but people
don't like to talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and to
listen. They go to the theater, watch TV, listen to the radio, read
books, busy with gadgets, busy with living only a life, but they
almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back
to the time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell
stories.”
Regards
Dhitendra
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