The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paulo Coelho & Margaret Jull Costa
Author:Paulo Coelho & Margaret Jull Costa [Coelho, Paulo & Costa, Margaret Jull]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General, Fiction - General, working, Authors, Psychological, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Missing persons, Psychological fiction, Marriage, Paris (France), Compulsive behavior, Novel, War Correspondents, Pyrenees
ISBN: 9780060832810
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00
Two days later, I was back home. Marie went to prepare lunch, and I glanced through the accumulated correspondence. The entry phone rang. It was the caretaker to say that the envelope I had expected the previous week had been delivered and should be on my desk.
I thanked him, but, contrary to all my expectations, I was not in a rush to open it. Marie and I had lunch; I asked her how filming had gone and she asked me about my immediate plans, given that I wouldnât be able to go out much while I was wearing the orthopedic collar. She said that she could, if necessary, come and stay.
âIâm supposed to do an appearance on some Korean TV channel, but I can always put it off or even cancel it altogether. Thatâs, of course, if you need my company.â
âOh, I do, and it would be lovely to have you around.â
She smiled broadly and picked up the phone to call her manager and ask her to change her engagements. I heard her say: âDonât tell them Iâm ill though. Iâm superstitious, and whenever Iâve used that excuse in the past, Iâve always come down with something really horrible. Just tell them Iâve got to look after the person I love.â
I had a series of urgent things to do too: interviews to be postponed, invitations that required replies, letters to be written thanking various people for the phone calls and flowers Iâd received, things to read, prefaces and recommendations to write. Marie spent the whole day on the phone to my agent, reorganizing my diary so that no one would be left without a response. We had supper at home every evening, talking about the interesting and the banal, just like any other couple. During one of these suppers, after a few glasses of wine, she remarked that I had changed.
âItâs as if having a brush with death had somehow brought you back to life,â she said.
âThat happens to everyone.â
âBut I must sayâand, donât worry, I donât want to start an argument and Iâm not about to have an attack of jealousyâyou havenât mentioned Esther once since coming home. The same thing happened when you finished A Time to Rend and a Time to Sew: the book acted as a kind of therapy, the effects of which, alas, didnât last very long.â
âAre you saying that the accident has affected my brain?â
My tone wasnât aggressive, but she nevertheless decided to change the subject and started telling me about a terrifying helicopter trip sheâd had from Monaco to Cannes. Later, in bed, we made loveâwith great difficulty given my orthopedic collarâbut we made love nevertheless and felt very close.
Four days later, the vast pile of paper on my desk had disappeared. There was only a large, white envelope bearing my name and the number of my apartment. Marie went to open it, but I told her it could wait.
She didnât ask me about it; perhaps it was information about my bank accounts or some confidential correspondence, possibly from another woman.
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