The Forty Rules Of Love: Elif Shafak - Softcover

Shafak, Elif

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241972930 ISBN 13: 9780241972939

Verlag: Penguin Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

*The international bestseller*"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..." 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, her world is turned upside down. 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., . . 'Enlightening, enthralling., An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times

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Críticas:

A gorgeous, jeweled, luxurious book (The Times)

Shafak will challenge Paulo Coelho's dominance. With its timely, thought-provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon (Independent)

Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love (Metro)

Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent (Daily Telegraph)

The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself (The Times)

Reseña del editor:

*The international bestseller*
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*

"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."

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, her world is turned upside down. 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. . .

'Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith and love' Metro

'Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' Daily Telegraph

'The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself' The Times

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0241972930
• ISBN 13: 9780241972939
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320