Elif 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 fifty languages. Her novels include The Bastard of Istanbul, Honor, The Architect’s Apprentice, Three Daughters of Eve, and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, which was a finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize. She is also the author of a memoir, Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood. An active political commentator, columnist, and public speaker, she lives in London. Her Web site is www.elifshafak.com.
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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