he Forty Rules of Love  By Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak: Ella Rubenstein is 40 years old and unhappily married when

She takes a job as a reader for a literary agent.

Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara.

• Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams’s search for

Rumi and the dervish’s role in transforming the successful

But unhappy cleric into a committed mystic,

passionate poet,And advocate of love.14 rules of love

She is also taken rules with or Shams’s lessons,

That offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of

All people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us.forty rules of love in urdu

As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi’s story mir­rors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel,

The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds

Two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century

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when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet’s timeless message of love