The Forty Rules of LoveIn this lyrical, exuberant follow up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narrativesone contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabrizthat together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a