The Forty Rules of Love
Author: Shafak, Elif
ISBN: 9780241972939
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Weight, 300 g
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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...
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Syahirah This is my first book from the author Elif Shafak, and i can say that it was quite interesting. I was quite impressed with the way Elif Shafak told the story about Rumi and Shams, (as we know both of them as famous poet) through the eye from people around them. On the other side of the parallel world, there's Ella who struggle with her current life and how she learn about Rumi and Shams through amateur writer, Aziz with his writings. There are so many beautiful and meaningful quotes in this novel, and one of my favorite is, "If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't love enough."