The Forty Rules of Love
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  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972939
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

The Forty Rules of Love

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15 Aug 2023
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24 Jun 2015
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2 Jun 2011
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6 Jun 2019
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A magical, cross-century tale of self-discovery

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...
  • Published: 24 June 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241972939
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.'

Also by Elif Shafak

There are Rivers in the Sky
The Island of Missing Trees
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Three Daughters of Eve
The Architect's Apprentice
The Bastard of Istanbul
Black Milk
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Praise 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

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
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