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*The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World*
* 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 his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into a faraway world where faith and doubt are heartbreakingly explored. The Forty Rules of Love is a mesmerising tale of discovery, language, truth and, of course, love itself.
‘Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love’ Metro
‘Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent’ Daily Telegraph
‘The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself’ The Times
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Set of 4 books 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 Magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, memory and amnesia, human-induced destruction of nature, and, finally, renewal. The Bastard of Istanbul is a tale of an extraordinary family curse and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Fiction Prize Filled with all the colour of the Ottoman Empire, when Istanbul was the teeming centre of civilisation. A magical, sweeping tale of one boy and his elephant caught up in a world of wonder and danger.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0241972930
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 January 2015
Edition ‏ : ‎ Latest Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780241972939
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241972939
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 255 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 2.1 x 19.7 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 500.00 Grams
Importer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Packer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book
Best Sellers Rank: #138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Historical Fiction (Books) #12 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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