TEHRAN – A Persian translation of Turkish author Elif Shafak’s novel “Forty Rules of Love”, which was inspired by the story of the fraternity between Rumi and Shams, is ready for publication.
The book was translated into Persian by Arasalan Fasihi.
“I translated the book into Persian in 2011 however it was not authorized by cultural officials at that time,” Fasihi told the Persian service of MNA.
The book depicts the forty-year-old unhappily married Ella Rubenstein who finds a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on “Sweet Blasphemy”, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams and Rumi.
As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi’s story mirrors her own and that Zahara-like Shams-has come to set her free.
Shafak wrote the book in 2011 and it sold it sold more than 750,000 copies, becoming an all time best-seller in Turkey.
The Persian version will be published by Qoqnus Publications in the near future.
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