The Zahir

Download or read book The Zahir written by Paulo Coelho and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superabundant talent, stunning originality, an elegant way with words… The Zahir is something more.” -- Los Angeles Times The narrator of The Zahr is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover. Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape 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 finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself. A haunting and redemptive story about obsession, The Zahir explores its potential to fulfill our dreams, and to destroy them.

Download or read book Paulo Coelho The Deluxe Collection written by Paulo Coelho and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scorpions of Zahir written by Christine Brodien-Jones and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zagora Pym has always wanted to be a desert explorer. Her father, Charlie Pym, is exactly that, and she's always loved to look over his maps of far away exotic places. One day she'd be trekking through the deserts of Africa and China, discovering hidden treasures from lost tribes. But Zagora would never have guessed that her chance to prove herself would come so soon. Like most adventures, it starts with a mysterious letter. The question is, how will this adventure end? Zagora's dreams of desert exploration are about to come ture, but are she and her father and brother being followed? And will they ever make it back to civilization?

Download or read book Brida written by Paulo Coelho and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “In Brida, my third novel, which I wrote just after The Alchemist, I tell the story of a young woman who dives into sorcery and her experiences with different magical traditions. I explore many themes that are dear to me, such as the Great Mother, pagan religions, and the perceptions of love.” -- Paulo Coelho This is the spellbinding tale of Brida, a beautiful young Irish woman, and her quest for knowledge. On her journey, she meets a wise man who teaches her about overcoming her fears, and a woman who teaches her ancient rituals. They see in her a gift, but must let Brida make her own voyage of discovery.

Download or read book Zahir written by Feruzbek Ziyodullayev and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-06 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Afghan warrior and hunter Zahir was peacefully living in Nuristan Mountains with his family. One day a bald man in black killed his wife and his only son while Zahir was hunting in the forest. This man was an assassin who was a member of the assassins' group named 'The Angels of Death.' When Zahir found the dead bodies of his wife and son, he promised to find that murderer and take revenge. Meantime the assassins attempted to kill the emir of Bukhara. Zahir went to Bukhara to protect the emir...

Download or read book Like the Flowing River written by Paulo Coelho and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho.

Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Carter Wheelock and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study reduces a number of literary and intellectual abstractions to concrete terms, enabling the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be not so fantastic after all. Indeed, they are amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind. Wheelock also discusses the affinity between Borges’s philosophical idealism and his “esthetic of the intelligence,” the relationship between these and the esthetic ideas of French Symbolism, and the influence on his fictions of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Why is it that this “writer’s writer” from the Argentine—erudite, allusive, elusive—has attracted such international attention? In Wheelock’s opinion, it is because he has symbolized in his short stories the fundamental form of the human consciousness, the functioning of the imaginative (world-creating) mechanism, and the eternal battle between form and chaos. The Mythmaker is concerned with elucidating the particulars of Borges’s fictional works, but even as it does so it also reveals their universality.