Sarfraz Ali
The zahir is a fiction story which was written by the famous author of the Alchemist Paulo coelho. He is one of the bestselling and most influential author. This book contain 336 pages and translated into 44 languages, and it was published in 2005. The book is about a journey. It deals with themes of love, obsession and loss. The story begin where the wife of narrator Esther abandoned him without informing him. Even though he was living a luxury life brought to him by money and fame. He enjoyed all comfort and privileges that money bring. But he was unsatisfied and unhappy because of his missing wife. On the other side Police suspected his hand in the disappearance of his wife. He went on the search of his wife. So the narrator looked back at his own life to examine what went wrong that made his wife evaporate. Once he meet with close friend of Esther named Mikhail. He was aware where his wife is and why she left him. So Mikhail promise to take him to Esther. From him, he learned that Esther left him in search of peace as she could not find one with him. When he became aware the reason behind her disappearance than he realized that in order to detect his other half, ” I must first find myself”. A search for his own self. He begun his journey and his search for his partner turned into a journey into his own soul. The best part of book is, it helps the reader to think and discover their real and natural self. And explore your self.
