* 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 1997 MAN BOOKER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The quality of Ms. Roy’s narration is so extraordinary—at once so morally strenuous and so imaginatively supple—that the reader remains enthralled all the way through.”—The New York Times Book Review “A novel of real ambition must invent its own language, and this one does.”—John Updike, The New Yorker
