ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels, including There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities in Turkey, the U.S. and the UK. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.
Praise for The Forty Rules of Love:
"Here's a middle-aged love story and the inside story of one of
history's great friendships, and on top of all that, the story of
the battle within medieval Islam between the conservatives and the
Sufis... Laugh, cry, tear your hair out as you learn."
—NPR.org
"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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