THE FORTY RULES OF LOVE
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'
"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."
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, her world is turned upside down. 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. . .
'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times
'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph
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ELIF SHAFAK
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-six languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's last novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
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SHAFAK ELIF
Elif Shafak es una galardonada novelista turco-británica, cuya obra ha sido traducida a cincuenta y ocho idiomas. Autora de veinte libros, trece de ellos novelas, es una autora con gran éxito de ventas en numerosos países del mundo. Su novela "10 minutos y 38 segundos en este extraño mundo" fue preseleccionada para el Premio Booker y el Premio RSL Ondaatje. "La isla de los árboles perdidos" fue un éxito de ventas del Sunday Times y preseleccionada para el Premio Costa de Novela y el Premio Femenino de Ficción. "Hay ríos en el cielo", ganadora del Premio Edward Stanford de Ficción, es su última novela.
Shafak tiene un doctorado en ciencias políticas y es miembro y vicepresidenta de la Royal Society of Literature. Ha sido galardonada con la medalla de Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres y, en 2024, con la Medalla Presidencial de la Academia Británica por su excelente obra, que demuestra una increíble diversidad intercultural.
