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The Forty Rules of Love Paperback
The Forty Rules of Love Paperback
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Print length
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368 pages |
| Language | English |
| Book cover type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin |
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Publication date
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1 January 2015 |
| Dimensions | 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.21 cm |
| Item Weight | 270g |
| Country of Origin | United Kingdom |
*The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World*
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*
"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
Elif Shafak's latest novel The Island of Missing Trees is available for pre-order now
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Review
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 TelegraphThe past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself ― 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
Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent ― Daily Telegraph
About the Author
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. The Island of Missing Trees was a Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. There are Rivers in the Sky, which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.
Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President's Medal for ‘her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range’.
