The Forty Rules of Love

Description

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped the World’

“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough…”

Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella’s life – an emptiness once filled by love.

So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.

It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .

Reviews

“Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent” ― Daily Telegraph

“A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book”― The Times

“Shafak will challenge Paulo Coelho’s dominance. With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon”― Independent

“Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love”― Metro

“Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent”― Daily Telegraph

“The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself”― The Times

Author Biography

Elif Shafak is an award-winning bestselling novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her previous novels include The Bastard of Istanbul, a San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times bestseller, and The Saint of Incipient Insanities. Her op-ed pieces have run in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has been featured on National Public Radio.