Elif Shafak - 2010 - The Forty Rules of Love (Fiction)

The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak - 2010

A Novel of Rumi







By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 03-04-10

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction

Language: English

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo







In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives---one contemporary and the other set in the 13th century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz---that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.



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' 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. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, which 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. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mirrors her own and that Zahara---like Shams---has come to set her free.



©2010 Elif Shafek (P)2010 Tantor











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