Elif Shafak. (2010). The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc.

Elif Shafak. 2010. The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi. Tantor Media, Inc.

Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi. Tantor Media, Inc, 2010.

Elif Shafak. The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi. Unabridged Tantor Media, Inc, 2010.

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     November 30, 2009
     Celebrated Turkish novelist Shafak (The Bastard of Istanbul
     ) serves up a curious blend of mediocre hen lit and epic historical to underwhelming results. In present-day Boston, dull suburban mother and cheated-on wife Ella Rubinstein takes a job as a reader for a literary agent and becomes entranced by Aziz Zahara, the author of a manuscript about the relationship between 13th-century poet Rumi and Sufi mystic Shams that, for better or for worse, becomes a story-within-a-story. Aziz and Ella strike up an e-mail relationship, largely made up of Ella's midlife crisis and Aziz's philosophical replies. Meanwhile, Aziz's novel, Sweet Blasphemy
     , is occasionally interesting but mostly dull, weighed down by Rufi's and Shams's theological musings. Its better moments concern tangential characters; Rumi's son, Aladdin, who is resentful of his father's closeness to the mystic, and Rumi's adopted daughter, Kimya, whose doomed marriage to Shams is touching in a way Ella's failed relationship with her husband never manages. The rumblings against Shams reach a peak, and Ella and Aziz finally meet, tying the story lines together into a readable, if not enthralling, tale.

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