Summary Of Forty Rules Of Love

The book “Forty rules of Love” is written by a Turkish author and storyteller Elif Shafak, which has earned her many awards and praises. She mostly writes fiction both in Turkish and English. Shafak mixes Western and Eastern customs of narrating in stories of women, minorities, outsiders, subcultures, and youth. Her written work draws on various societies and literary traditions, reflecting interests ever, theory, Sufism, oral culture, and social legislative issues.
The Forty Rules of love is a mesmerizing tale of love. This lyrical, exuberant and bewitching tale unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary story of a forty-year-old woman Ella Rubinstein and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encounters his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet’s timeless message of love. Ella’s life is a set of predictable events until the day she decides to turn her back on all that is familiar and safe, she ventures on an unexpected journey through time, exploring love, adventure and spirituality.
This book can be described as a novel within a novel as Ella is introduced to the story of Shams and Rumi through a novel “Sweet Blasphemy”. The book can be divided into three parts. First that describes Ella’s life and how her life changes when she reads “Sweet Blasphemy” and soon finds herself captivated both by the novel and the man who wrote it. Second, which traces Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's part in altering the successful but unhappy scholar into a passionate poet, mystic, and advocate of love. Third which …show more content…
The style of this novel is a narrative one where as the story unfolds we see different narrations by different