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The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak is one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She wasborn in 1971 and is the author of six novels, including
The Forty Rules of Love,The Bastard of Istanbul, The Gaze, The Saint of Incipient Insanities and The Flea Palace, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches at the University ofArizona and divides her time between the US and Istanbul.
TheForty Rules OF Love
ELIF SHAFAK
VIKING an imprint of PENGUIN BOOKS
First published in Great Britain by Viking 2010Copyright © Elif Shafak, 2010
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrightedworks:
‘Only Breath’ and ‘Why Wine Is Forbidden’ from The Essential Rumi
, translations by ColemanBarks (HarperCollins). Used by permission of Coleman Barks.
, translations by ColemanBarks (HarperCollins). Used by permission of Coleman Barks.
‘Tattooing in Qazwin’ from A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
by Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2006 byColeman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
by Coleman Barks. Copyright © 2006 byColeman Barks. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’simagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actualevents or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved
Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may bereproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of boththe copyright owner and the above publisher of this book
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I watched the mysteries of the higher and lower worlds.
I thought all men saw the same.
At last I realized that they did not see.…
—SHAMS OF TABRIZ
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Ella
Sweet Blasphemy
Foreword
The Killer
The FortyRules of Love
PART ONE
Shams
Ella
Shams
Ella
The Master
Ella
The Novice
Ella
The Master
The Letter
Shams
Ella
The Letter
The Novice
Shams
The Novice
Ella
PART TWO
RumiShamsHasan the Beggar
ShamsEllaDesert Rose the HarlotHasan the BeggarSuleiman the DrunkEllaDesert Rose the HarlotSuleiman the DrunkEllaElla
ShamsEllaDesert Rose the HarlotHasan the BeggarSuleiman the DrunkEllaDesert Rose the HarlotSuleiman the DrunkEllaElla
PART THREE
The ZealotShamsRumiEllaAladdinRumiKerraKimyaEllaKerraShams of TabrizEllaBaybars the WarriorEllaRumiKimyaSultan WaladKerraRumiSultan WaladEllaDesert Rose the HarlotKimyaShamsEllaDesert Rose the HarlotElla
Shams
Shams
PART FOUR
Suleiman the DrunkAladdinShamsEllaThe ZealotHusam the StudentBaybars the WarriorEllaKerraSultan WaladSuleiman the DrunkAladdinShamsEllaSultan Walad
PART FIVE
RumiShamsKimyaKerraEllaShamsAladdinKimyaDesert RoseKimyaEllaSuleiman the DrunkThe KillerEllaAladdinSultan WaladRumi
Ella
