The Forty Rules of Love

Name: The Forty Rules of Love
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin / Penguin Books
SKU: 9780143118527-PRUSDTR-US
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English • Age Adult - Adult

368 pages • 5.42 x 8.42 x 0.78 in

Approx. weight: 0.66 lb

Publication date: 26 Apr,2011

Barcode: 9780143118527 • Penguin Publishing Group : Penguin Books / Penguin / Penguin Books

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By: Elif Shafak

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love

The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work.

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.