<b>In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel <i>The Bastard of Istanbul</i>, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love</b><br /><br /><i>The Forty Rules of Love </i>unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives--one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz--that together explore the enduring power of Rumi's work.<br /><br />Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on <i>Sweet Blasphemy</i>, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based
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