The Forty Rules of Love

The Forty Rules of Love novel by the Turkish author Elif Shafak and translated by Mohamed Darwish. The heroine of the novel is Ella, a Jewish housewife with three children, suffering from her husband David's betrayal, which caused her to lose her passion for him, making married life a hell she lives through day after day. Ella gets a job as a critic in a publishing office, and suddenly she comes across a novel by a writer named Aziz Zahara, which talks about Jalal al-Din Rumi and the owner of Shams. Then she will read this novel from her hands to become two novels in one story full of love and passion wrapped in Sufism. Quotes from The Forty Rules of Love: "Humans tend to belittle what they cannot understand." "I learned to accept both the thorn and the rose, the flaws and the virtues of life." "God's lovers never lose patience, because they know that for the crescent moon to become full, it needs time." Book information: Genre: Novel Number of pages of The Forty Rules of Love: 777 Author: Elif Shafak Translation: Mohamed Darwish Publisher: Dar Al-Adab