The Narcissist: I Extinguished You So I Could Burn

About this book

Can a soul deliberately extinguished catch fire again? In Sulaf's world, love was nothing but a well-laid trap. She is the one who lived her years like a rose that wilted before its time, trapped between the jaws of a narcissist as skilled at manipulating minds as he was at breaking hearts. The story begins when Sulaf finds herself confronting the past she fled from, and a present gnawing at what remains of her dignity. She enters the clinic of psychiatrist Aser carrying the pains of her ex-husband Nader, the man who not only stole her happiness but tried to convince her she was a failure, sick, and marginalized. But the stunning surprise lies in the doctor's identity; he is Aser, the teenage sweetheart who vanished for years leaving a hole in her heart, now returning with professional coldness hiding storms of reproach and longing. The novel is no mere story of betrayal or parting, but a journey of "decoding" pain. Events unfold between memories of innocence on the balconies of Alexandria, and the hell of living with someone who sees the extinguishing of his partner as power.