Elif Shafak’s SWEET BLASPHEMY tells the parallel stories of a middle aged book editor who is assigned a manuscript by a modern Sufi that takes her back to the tumultuous 13th Century where she discovers the revered Islamic Scholar Rumi’s life surprisingly bears similarities to her own and as Rumi’s life is changed forever when he meets the infamous wandering dervish Shams of Tabriz, the editor meets the author of the manuscript and her life is never again the same to Paul Slovak at Viking, in a good deal, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc. (NA)
