Elifshafak Stories

This story is originally written by the author Elif Shafak. I do not own the rights to this book. Elif Shafak is one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She was born in 1971 and is the author of six novels, most recently "The Saint of Incipient Insanities, The Gaze and The Flea Palace, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches at the University of Arizona and divides her time between the US and Istanbul.

Jeyne Hosein. What can you calculate from that name alone? Among one million sixteen year old girls trapped in adventures and romances and the attentions of everyone around them... that name means the one- million-and-one-th. Jeyne is a reader, like all of you. She loves good food, good music and especially good books. But the only difference is that she lives in a world where most of it is forbidden, restricted and banned. In Penillo, revolutionary, rebellious and wild ideas are banned. What should happen then, dare I venture, if she were to discover three things at once: A Forbidden Love? A Corrupt Minister? A Hidden Library? ...

Life is fleeting .... A story of a new beginning of finding love for yourself. Age is never an excuse to change, to start a new life, to see things differently. Mr Frost has the most ideal life. Everyone wanted to be in his shoes. At the ripe age of 70 as he come across a book that makes him reflect and think more about that hole he has always had in his chest. A hole he tried to fill first with money and became a billionaire then tried to satisfy it with a wife, and it eased the hollowness for some time than his three amazing kids the sensible Sabastian, Andromeda (the bundle of all things good), and Daniel the devil. Together they all took away the hollowness but that void still did not go away completely and more often than not it got aggravated whenever he got into one of those discussions with Damon Ambrose, the best friend, the partner, the one person who understood him. As he comes across "Forty rules of love" in a misconception he starts reading and finds something he never expected before starting to read it. How will this book change his relationships, His perception of life, and most importantly will the hollowness finally go away? Or will it only get further aggravated?

The Forty Rules of Love is a novel written by the Turkish author Elif Shafak, Her interest in writing this book was influenced by the degree she received in Gender and Women's Studies. The book was published in March 2009. It is about Maulana Jalal-Ud-Din, known as Rumi and his companion Shams Tabrizi.