Elif Shafak Collection 3 Books Set - Forty Rules of Love, Bastard of Istanbul & Honour - Paperback Literary Fiction

Titles in This Set The Forty Rules of Love The Bastard of Istanbul Honour Details Condition: Brand New Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789124063276 Publisher: Penguin Age Range: Adult Overview This Elif Shafak Collection brings together three of the author's most acclaimed literary novels in one paperback set: The Forty Rules of Love, The Bastard of Istanbul, and Honour. Spanning Sufi mysticism, Istanbul family secrets, and a London-Turkish migration saga, these three books showcase Shafak's gift for weaving history, culture, and deeply human emotion. Ideal for book clubs, literary fiction readers, and anyone drawn to stories of love, identity, and belonging across borders. About the Books The Forty Rules of Love follows Ella Rubinstein, an outwardly settled American housewife whose life is quietly transformed when she reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Rumi and his companion, Shams of Tabriz. Interweaving Ella's present-day awakening with Shams's forty rules for living and loving, the novel is a meditation on faith, freedom, and transformative love that has resonated with readers worldwide. The Bastard of Istanbul centres on Asya Kazanci, raised in a household of formidable Istanbul women, and Armanoush, an Armenian-American who travels to Turkey to uncover her family's hidden past. Through these two young women, Shafak explores the fraught, often unspoken history between Turks and Armenians, blending sharp humour, food, and family drama with a serious reckoning with collective memory. Honour follows the Toprak family from a Kurdish village in Turkey to 1970s London, tracing how tradition, secrecy, and shifting notions of family honour shape the lives of twins Iskender and Esma. It is a powerful, unflinching look at migration, identity, and the human cost of inherited expectations, told with the emotional depth and narrative sweep Shafak is known for. Three acclaimed novels by an internationally bestselling, award-winning author Rich, character-dr