By Paulo Coelho
The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all of the privileges cash and superstar carry. His spouse of ten years, Esther, is a warfare correspondent who has disappeared besides a chum, Mikhail, who may well or is probably not her lover. was once Esther abducted, murdered, or did she easily break out a wedding that left her unfulfilled? The narrator does not have any solutions, yet he has lots of questions of his personal. Then sooner or later Mikhail reveals the narrator and provides to reunite him along with his spouse. In his try and recapture a misplaced love, the narrator discovers anything unforeseen approximately himself.
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Except that, if she left, she would do so immediately and burn any bridges that would allow her to come back. I ask her what she means. She’d get another boyfriend, she says, fall in love. She goes off to her work at the newspaper, and I decide to take a day’s leave (apart from writing lyrics, I’m also working for a recording company). I sit down at the typewriter. I get up again, read the papers, reply to some urgent letters, and, when I’ve done that, start replying to nonurgent letters. I make a list of things I need to do, I listen to music, I take a walk around the block, chat to the baker, come home, and suddenly the whole day has gone and I still haven’t managed to type a single sentence.
Two hundred and fifty years passed before someone decided that it was time to abolish the pagan festivals surrounding the winter solstice, the time when the sun is farthest from the earth. The apostles, and those who came after them, were too busy spreading Jesus’ message to worry about the natalis invict Solis, the Mithraic festival of the birth of the sun, which occurred on December 25. Then a bishop decided that these solstice festivals were a threat to the faith and that was that! ” “And then there’s the Christmas tree.
He says that he’s phoned around to all the hospitals and morgues (the kind of thing you do when someone fails to return home), but has not as yet found Esther. He says that he managed to prevent journalists from finding out where I was being held. He says he needs to talk to me in order to draw up a legal strategy that will help me defend myself against any future accusation. I thank him for all his trouble; I know he’s not really interested in drawing up a legal strategy, he just doesn’t want to leave me alone, because he’s not sure how I’ll react.