About “The Forty Rules of Love”
This 2009 romance novel by Elif Şafak follows Ella Rubenstein, forty and unhappily married, who takes a job reading manuscripts and encounters a novel about Shams of Tabriz and Rumi. Two parallel narratives unfold: one contemporary, one set in the thirteenth century, exploring the unity of all people and religions and the presence of love in everyone, as Ella realizes the story mirrors her own life.
Book details
- Published
- 2015
- Latest edition
- 2015 · ISBN 9780241972939