Used book – The Zahir, Paulo Coelho

"Esther, the Zahir. She filled everything. She is the only reason I am alive. [...] I must rebuild myself and, for the first time in my entire existence, accept that I love another human being more than myself." A famous writer is dumbfounded when his wife, Esther, a war correspondent, mysteriously disappears. She seems to have left him for someone else... But after ten years of marriage, he cannot accept her departure without a real explanation. As the woman he loves becomes his Zahir, his obsession, the writer embarks on a quest for himself. From Paris to Central Asia, his journey will open his eyes to true love.