Book obsession

Author: Sarah Chehayia Publication date: 2026 Book classification: Biographies and memoirs Publisher: ‎Aseer Al-Kutub‎ Number of pages: 264 Format: Paperback Overview: - Books seduce you, or even destroy you, expose you, awaken you, and stir hidden things within you - This is what Sarah Chehayia believes. And everyone who loves books without cure knows this strange kind of encounters that turn your world upside down. Sarah calls this type of books: "life destroyers." Her destructive book was the bluest eye of Toni Morrison, and it became her talisman in her teenage years. She believes that each of us has their own destructive book. Sarah's entire life revolved around books: she read to find an escape, an identity, and rules to help her live. She became a literary critic and taught literature at a prestigious university. Then she suddenly collapsed, was hospitalized, and the world became a blank unreadable page. When she tried to rise again, she faced a terrifying question: can we truly rewrite the stories that control our lives? The obsession with books is a captivating, sometimes painful, sometimes sarcastic memoir about collapse and survival, narrated by the author through books. From Ann in the Green Heights to Possession, from a story of the temporal being to the last samurai, Sarah Chehayia explores her identity, her relationship with depression, and the strange and moving ways in which books resist those who love them too much.