Shafak, Elif, 1971-
The forty rules of love / Elif Shafak. - Penguin Books : London, c2010. - 354 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Translated from the Turkish.
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself.This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places.
9780141047188
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273--Influence--Fiction.
Literary agents--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
The forty rules of love / Elif Shafak. - Penguin Books : London, c2010. - 354 p. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references. Translated from the Turkish.
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advocate of love. Slowly she realizes that his thirteenth-century life is starting to mirror her own, and in doing so it opens up exciting opportunities for her to embrace the dervish's timeless message for herself.This is a mesmerizing novel about finding love and inspiration in the most unlikely of places.
9780141047188
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273--Influence--Fiction.
Literary agents--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.