The Forty Rules of Love
$23.79
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2023
Summary
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 his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious auth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241996546 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241996546 |
| Author: | Elif Shafak |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 205g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 111mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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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 *About The Author
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world.
Shafak’s previous novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, was the UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others. She is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the British Book Awards.
Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide.
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