The Forty Rules of Love

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US & Canada Viking
2010

By Elif Shafak Translation Rights Sold

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Longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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An American housewife is transformed by an intriguing manuscript about the Sufi mystic poet
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Rumi.
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In this lyrical, exuberant new novel, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two parallel Czech Egmont Books
narratives- one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when the Sufi poet and Danish Underskoven
mystic Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the infamous wandering dervish known as Shams of Dutch Uitgeverij De Geus
Tabriz. Both stories together incarnate Rumi's timeless message of love. Estonian Verb Publishing House
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American housewife Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job French Editions Phebus
as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on a work of fiction Sweet
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Blasphemy, by a man named Aziz Zahara. Zahara's novel, which is told in many different voices,
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tells of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy
cleric in a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. In the age of deeply embedded Greek Papadopoulos
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bigotries and clashes, Rumi dared to break free of all conventional rules, to stand for a universal
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spirituality and an innver-oriented jihad, where the aim was to struggle against and prevail over
one's ego. Not everyone welcomed these ideas, however, and the powerful spiritual bond between Indonesian KPG (Kepustakaan
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Rumi and Shams became the target of rumor, slander, and attack.
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Becoming increasingly mesmerized by this tale, and growing more distant from her husband, Ella Kannada Inamaste/Peak Platform
begins to question her protected, insular life and to reach out to Aziz, who lives in Amsterdam. She Latvian Zvaigzne ABC
is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, which offer insight into an ancient philosophy based Publishers
on the unity of all peoples and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As Lithuanian Tyto Alba
Ella reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir​rors her own and that Aziz-like Shams-has come to Macedonian TRI Publishing Centre
set her free, to transform her in a way she never could have imagined. Malayalam Other Books
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The Forty Rules of Love brings together East and West, past and present, to provide a compelling, Norwegian Font Forlag
dramatic, and exuberant account of how love works in the world.
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