The Forty Rules of Love - Shafak, Elif
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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 Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. 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 ...…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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 Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
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 ...
Autorenporträt
Elif Shafak lebt in der Türkei. Ihre Romane wurden in mehr als 25 Sprachen übersetzt. Für ihr Werk "Der Bastard von Istanbul" stand die Autorin wegen "Beleidigung und Verunglimpfung des Türkentums" unter Anklage, doch der Prozess wurde zu ihren Gunsten entschieden. Elif Shafak ist Universitätsdozentin, schreibt für Magazine und Zeitschriften und textet Songs für türkische Rockbands. Sie lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Kindern in Istanbul.
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