The Forty Rules of Love

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US & Canada Viking
2010

By Elif Shafak Translation Rights Sold

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An American housewife is transformed by an intriguing manuscript about Chinese Simple CITIC Publishing
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the Sufi mystic poet Rumi.
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In this lyrical, exuberant new novel, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak
unfolds two parallel narratives- one contemporary and the other set in the Danish Underskoven

thirteenth century, when the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi encountered his Dutch Uitgeverij De Geus

spiritual mentor, the infamous wandering dervish known as Shams of Estonian Verb Publishing
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Tabriz. Both stories together incarnate Rumi's timeless message of love.
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American housewife Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily
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married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first
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assignment is to read and report on a work of fiction Sweet Blasphemy, by
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a man named Aziz Zahara. Zahara's novel, which is told in many different
voices, tells of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in Greek Papadopoulos
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transforming the successful but unhappy cleric in a committed mystic,
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passionate poet, and advocate of love. In the age of deeply embedded
bigotries and clashes, Rumi dared to break free of all conventional rules, to Indonesian KPG (Kepustakaan
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stand for a universal spirituality and an innver-oriented jihad, where the aim
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was to struggle against and prevail over one's ego. Not everyone welcomed
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these ideas, however, and the powerful spiritual bond between Rumi and
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Shams became the target of rumor, slander, and attack.
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Becoming increasingly mesmerized by this tale, and growing more distant
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from her husband, Ella begins to question her protected, insular life and to
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reach out to Aziz, who lives in Amsterdam. She is also taken with Shams's Centre
lessons, or rules, which offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on Malayalam Other Books
the unity of all peoples and religions, and the presence of love in each and Montenegrin Nova Knjiga
every one of us. As Ella reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir​rors her Norwegian Font Forlag
own and that Aziz-like Shams-has come to set her free, to transform her in Polish Wydawnictwo
a way she never could have imagined. Literackie
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The Forty Rules of Love brings together East and West, past and present, Russian Atticus Publishing
to provide a compelling, dramatic, and exuberant account of how love works Group
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