The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak

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English

Penguin
15 August 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Essentials

A magical, cross-century tale of self-discovery from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a Penguin Essential

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, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family 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...

By: Elif Shafak
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 112mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 203g
ISBN: 9780241996546
ISBN 10: 0241996546
Series: Penguin Essentials
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-six languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. There Are Rivers in the Sky is her latest novel.

Reviews for The Forty Rules of Love

A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book * The Times * 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 *