Eli Shafak is an award-winning, bestselling novelist; a champion of women's rights and freedom of expression; and the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages. Her novels include The Flea Palace, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, and The Architect's Apprentice. An active political commentator, columnist, and public speaker, she lives in London and Istanbul with her family.
"A captivating and wise book . . . The tale of the fated meeting,
spiritual companionship, and tragic parting of [Rumi and Shams of
Tabriz] is beautifully recounted in The Forty Rules of Love.
. . . Shafak draws on facts from Rumi's and Sham's biographies and
brings them to life with deft storytelling."
--Associated Press
"A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book . . . The past and the
present fit together beautifully in a passionate defense of passion
itself."
--The Times (London) "In this appealing fable,
Turkish author Elif Shafak toggles between characters from
different times: a modern American housewife and a
thirteenth-century poet. . . . The universal theme is struggle
between the rational mind and the aching heart. Shafak's heroine
yields to the latter and never looks back."
--More magazine
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