The Forty Rules of Love

The Forty Rules of Love novel by 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's betrayal "David" 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 at 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 be two novels in one story full of love and passion wrapped in Sufism. Quotes from The Forty Rules of Love novel: "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" "Lovers of God never lose patience at all, because they know that for the crescent to become a full moon, it needs time" Book information: Author: Elif Shafak. Translation: Mohamed Darwish. Year of publication: 2015. Publisher: Dar Al-Adab. Number of pages: 777