Elif Shafak - A szerelem 40 szabálya

Ella is a forty-year-old, well-to-do American housewife, perfectly content with her lot, who devotes her life to serving her husband and three children, and doesn't even mind that her husband regularly cheats on her. One day, after an argument with her grand daughter, she realizes that she is actually unhappy and that she really lacks love in her life. Since her children no longer require her constant attention, she takes on remote work at a well-known book publisher. Your first task is to evaluate a book by an unknown author. The story is from XIII. takes place in Anatolia in the 19th century and tells the life of Rumi, the famous Muslim religious scholar and mystical poet, in novel form, who undergoes a radical transformation when he meets a strange wandering dervish, Shems from Tabriz, who has special abilities. Ella approaches the world in the novel with fear, but soon she is captivated by the plot and fascinated by Sufi mysticism. As she begins to correspond with the author by e-mail, she almost immediately feels an incomprehensible attraction for this man she has never met, and realizes that their meeting is as fateful and overwhelming as that of Rumi and Semszé. She draws strength from this love and from Rumi's poems to break out of the prison of conventions, turn her back on marriage, children, security, and embark on a great journey, both in body and soul, by the side of a special man.

The Turkish-born Elif Shafak is a captivating storyteller, a modern Seherazade, who explores timeless themes in her exotic stories.

The work was published in 2011 under the title Love by Europa Könyvkiadó.