* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* 'A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book' - The Times Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' - Daily Telegraph 'With it's timely, through provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon' - Independent
'Shafak's most ambitious novel yer, and her best - generous and imaginative' - Independent 'Fasicnating. A vigorous evocation of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power' - Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind ― Guardian Murakami's bold willingness to go straight-over-the-top has always been a signal indication of his genius...a powerful melange of disillusioned radicalism, keen intelligence, wicked sarcasm and a general allegiance to the surreal. If Murakami is…
