The Forty Rules of Love

*The international bestseller* "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. . . '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

Product details

• Authors: Elif Shafak, Shafak Elif
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2015
• EAN: 9780241972939
• ISBN: 978-0-241-97293-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Viking
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, 21st Century, Turkey, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 13th century, c 1200 to c 1299