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What comes to your mind when you first read the title, “The Forty Rules of Love”? Maybe that this book is another romantic book describing a story of two people and 40 ways of describing love. Well, then you must be wrong.
I am sure
you have always heard people saying, “Never judge a book by its cover.” This
truly implies this book because this book is not the kind of book which
tells you how to love. Rather this jewel of a book tells you how to live your
life with love, with people you love, with people you not love.
Author: Elif Shafak
Book Name: The Forty Rules of Love
Category: Literary Fiction
Language: English
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About the Book
This book has multiple characters, every character describing a story individually but jointly. For starters, the main protagonist of the book is a woman named Ella Rubenstein, who is a married woman, a mother of three.
Her husband David and
she has been married for twenty years now and she feels that the spark that
used to be there is no more in their marriage. Ella mostly lost interest in her
marriage when she got to know that David is being slept with other women out
there.
Ella got a
job as a reader at a literary firm and her first assignment was to create a
book named “Sweet Blasphemy” by Aziz. Z. Zahara. Given the events that were
happening in her home, she was very sad and started reading the book to
distract her mind. Lesser did she knew her life was about to change
drastically.
Sweet
blasphemy had so many characters that one would get confused in them, but then,
every character had its own story but all pointing towards one direction,
getting to know the true feeling of love.
The main
protagonists of the book, Sweet Blasphemy was Shams of Tabriz and Rumi. The
book was set in the early 1200s in a city named Konya describing Rumi as a teacher
or master who gives preaching of the Quran to children. Rumi is worshipped like a
God in Konya because of the high amount of knowledge that he has and also for the
kind of human he is. He has two sons and a step wife. Despite having a sorted
and luxurious life, Rumi always remains anxious. Anxious about a dream that he
gets every night.
He always
has a dream of a mysterious man that is hard to describe, but Rumi understood
this much, that the man that comes to his dreams every night has some sort of
direct connection with his future and he finally got to see that man.
Reading
Sweet Blasphemy made Ella very curious about some facts so she wrote a mail to
Aziz. Z. Zahara for some clarifications. To her surprise, Aziz replied.
One fine
day, Rumi was strolling in the market on his horse when all of a sudden, his
path was cut by a dervish, so calm and peaceful that Rumi had no other choice
but to stay there and see that man. That dervish had bald and no eyebrows
and he had some kind of tranquility on his face that made him very attractive.
Rumi was
lost in his thoughts when instantly, that dervish who was actually Shams of
Tabriz asked him a question that swept Rumi from his mind and at that very
moment, Rumi understood that he is the mysterious man that comes to his dream
every night.
After this
encounter, Rumi took Shams to his home and both of them remained enclosed for
forty days in the library. Actually, they were discussing those forty
rules of life and love. Over these days, the friendship between Shams and Rumi
became very strong and rumors started floating about Shams that he is not a man
of character and that he is influencing Rumi into doing ‘horrible’ things
which should not be done by a master or a man of value. (You will get to know
about them when you will read the book.)
On another hand, in the present, Ella and Aziz were having some serious
conversations via e-mails. Talking to Aziz made Ella happy. She felt delightful
and shockingly, she felt a woman after so long. Aziz made Ella cherish herself
and most importantly, Aziz was making Ella love herself. She started glowing
again like she used to do before.
This book
is filled with so many luxurious words that it will tempt you to read it again
and again and that’s why it will be better if you yourself purchase this book
and read what happens next because books like “The Forty Rules of Love” are
supposed to be read by everyone and anyone.
Purchase this book at: The Forty Rules of Love
Written By
– Anamika Malik
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