The novel The Forty Rules of Love by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and translated by Muhammad Darwish. The heroine of the novel is Ella, a Jewish housewife who has three children and suffers from the betrayal of her husband, David, who lost her desires towards him to make her marital life a hell that she lives in day after day.
Ella gets a job as a critic in a publishing office, and suddenly a novel falls into her hands, by a writer named Aziz Zahara, which talks about Jalal al-Din al-Roumi and the owner of Shams. And then you will read this novel from her hands to be two novels in one novel full of adoration and love wrapped in Sufism.
Excerpts from The Forty Rules of Love:
“Human beings tend to underestimate what they cannot understand.”
“I learned to accept both the thorn and the rose, the good and bad of life.”
“The lovers of God never run out of patience, because they know that time is needed for the crescent to become full.”
Book information
- Genre: Novel
- The number of pages of the novel The Forty Rules of Love: 777
- Author: Elif Shafak
- Translated by: Muhammad Darwish
- Publisher: Dar Al-Adab
