The Forty Rules of Love
Author: Shafak, Elif
ISBN: 9780241972939
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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...
ISBN: 9780241972939
Publisher: Penguin (General UK)
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 368
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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...
