Un écrivain célèbre remet en cause tous les principes qui ont gouverné sa vie lorsque sa femme disparaît sans laisser de traces. Au fil d'un périple qui le conduira de Paris jusqu'en Asie centrale, il traverse la steppe, son désert, sa magie et ses légendes pour retrouver celle qui donne plus qu...
Picking up the theme of the pilgrimage, this book tells a story of love, loss and passionate obsession. It demonstrates the author's storytelling, and his insight into what it is to be a human being in a world full of possibility.
The narrator of The Zahir 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.
