Being a wandering dervish, he isnвЂ™t used to staying at one place for long. It starts with Shams foreseeing his death and deciding to find, not a disciple, but an intellectually equal partner, to whom he could pass on his forty rules of love. Sweet Blasphemy is a well knit version of Shams of Tabriz and RumiвЂ™s friendship. She starts reading a manuscript titled: Sweet Blasphemy, written by Aziz Zahara. Her job is to read manuscripts assigned to her and decide if there is an audience for it and is profitable to be published. Guiding her daughter became a mirror for Ella, instead.Д®lla had recently joined a book publishing agent, after years of being a housewife. Ella, in trying to prevent her daughter from making a mistake in the blinded haste of love, realises the lack of it in her own life. She even tries to knock some sense into her eldest daughterвЂ™s head, who in complete contrast to Ella, is an ardent believer in the essentiality and sufficiency of love in a relationship and wants to marry her beau. She looks at her superficially pristine family life and tries to fight back the feeling that it had amounted to disappointment after 20 years of being married. The book opens with Ella, who doesnвЂ™t believe that a marriage needs love, after a point, so much as it needs partnership. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, with a story of two sufi mystics being told through a book being read by our protagonist Ella Rubenstein while her life turns upside down, is probably the best example and execution of mise en abyme in English literature.

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