Maze and Reflection

About this book

A call from behind the darkened glass: is what your eyes see really you? Suppose you woke up one morning to realize that the world you know is nothing but a fake version, and that every familiar face and every dear place is merely a mask worn by an unknown entity. What if certainty became a luxury you could not afford? This is the maze in which Adam Al-Namri finds himself imprisoned: a professor of philosophy and cognitive sciences who spent his life deconstructing theories of existence, only to find his own reality deconstructing before his eyes. Adam is not mad; he suffers from Capgras syndrome, a rare disorder that makes him see his loved ones as fake reflections of the original. Amid this painful doubt, the last thread binding him to reality disappears: his little daughter Layan, who seems to carry keys to a cognitive riddle deeper than mere childhood. The search for Layan is not merely a chase through the city's corners; it is a cognitive crossing into a world hiding behind "cracks of perception" — a world foretold by the mysterious philosopher Zakaria Al-Sabbagh, who vanished fifteen years ago after his colleagues called him "mad," and whose scattered writings may hold the only map out of the maze. A psychological thriller that asks whether we can ever truly know the faces of those we love.