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Synopsis
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself.
This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places.
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A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book (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)
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)
From the Back Cover
Something is missing in Ella Rubinstein's life. She has much to be grateful for: a long, stable marriage, albeit one that has lost its spark.Three teenage children who, romantic difficulties apart, have no major troubles. And a comfortable life in a pleasant home.
But Ella needs a new challenge.Taking a job as a reader to a literary agent, her first assignment is to read a novel by a mysterious Scottish author, Aziz Z. Zahara.
Plunged back into 13th century Anatolia, Ella reads about the fabled poet Rumi, whose world view was transformed by the whirling dervish Shams of Tabriz and his 40 rules of life and love.Fascinated, Ella tracks down Aziz Z. Zahara and begins to correspond with him - and in doing so her world is turned upside down...
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0670918733
- ISBN 13 9780670918737
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages368
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