Hello buddies, I am here to write about the novel named The forty rules of love that was published in 2009, authored by Elif Shafak. I am sure, you all have gone through it, once again its summary will help you to recall the whole situation of your past reading.
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In this novel has been discussed about Ella Rubinstein, a woman in her late thirties who has settled into the complacency of her life. The novel is also about fraternal love between Sufi dervish Shams of Tabriz and the mystical scholar poet Rumi. The story of Shams and Rumi comes to Ella through a book she is reviewing for her now Job. Forty year old Eilab Rubenstein is an ordinary unhappy housewife with three children and an unfaithful husband yet her life begins to change dramatically when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agency.
At the center of the novel that Ella is reading the remarkable, wandering, whirling dervish Shams of Tabriz. He is searching for the spiritual companion, he is destined to reach. His soul's purpose is to transform his student, Rumi a beloved but rather complacent, unmystical preacher.
Along the way, Shams imparts the forty rules of love, essential sufi wisdom that shams both preaches and embodies. It is not an easy story that Elif Shafak tells, nor an entirely happy one.