The Forty Rules of Love By Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak: Ella Rubenstein is 40 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,
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She is also taken rules with or Shams's lessons,
That offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of
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As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.
In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel,
The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds
Two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century
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when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love
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