Where's my Zahir?. Review on Zahir, The - Paulo Coelho

I really have to thank my mother for introducing me to this author. I've read most of his books and he seems to answer a lot of questions to which I had no answers to for a very long time. His books aren't EASY learning as such, you may come across incidents in your life which suddenly give you a flashback of the book which helps you in your present situation.

In The Zahir, a man with no name wonders why his wife of ten years has left him, and as is the case with most of Coelho’s novels, a pilgrimage begins which leads the central character to question his or her purpose in life and the things that truly matter. This book talks about this persons life as a writer and his experiences with infidelity in his marriage. He learns to find a different kind of love for another woman after his wifes mysterious disappearance. Also introduced in the book is a man named Mikhail who is spiritually connected with beings that talk to him - whom he suspects of being his wife’s lover and who is part of a strange sect or tribe of alternative young people who take part in “truth” rituals or performances How ever I see this character as an exaggeration of the inner voice and feeling of the right time, signs and decisions we choose to ignore because we are experts at ignoring these vital signs in our life that ultimately reach us to a goal - the whole reason we are reborn once again(that's in my opinion). Arriving at a railway station the narrator perceives that ''the tracks seemed to be saying something about my marriage, and about all marriages.'' Something about the distance in the tracks that has to do with how the Romans decided the length! I really didn't see the connection between that and marriages!! (Even though I'm not married myself!!!!!)

All in all, this book doesn't make you want to pick it up again next week to see if you've missed out any parts of it. I'm not AS happy as I was reading the Alchemist or 11 minutes. Some people call Paulo Coelho to famous for his own good. One thing I'd like to point out to critics, its we that makes people like these famous, and I think he deserves it to!