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Paulo Coelho Zahir, The
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It is quite probable, that soon critics will name "Zahir" to be the best of the well-known Brazilian writer's novels. However, it happened almost with each new book of Paulo Coelho. And sensational "Alchemist", and vital "Veronica decides to die", and scandalous "Eleven minutes" - all these products in due time were declared to be the thing due to which the name of the author remains in centuries.
But "Zahir" is not just the next best seller. It is the book of personal revelation, something like a confession submitted as a subject narration. The main hero - a popular writer, once a native of the backward country "where even there is no own literary tradition", hippie and addict, and nowadays a respectable inhabitant of France, rich and known - so looks like Coelho himself, that it will be difficult for reader to distract from the idea, that the story goes about the invented character, but not about the author.
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