Forty Rules of Love

By:

Elif Shafak

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: UK Penguin Books 2015Description: viii,358p PB 19x13cmISBN:

9780241972939

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 813.6 SHAF

Summary: 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, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family 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...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	St Aloysius Library Stack Section	English	813.6 SHAF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	07/20/2026	077172

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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, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family 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...

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