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The Blood Of Flowers
Anita Amirrezvani
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Set in seventeenth-century Iran, The Blood of Flowers is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood.
The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father. On the sudden death of her father, our heroine and her mother fall upon hard times and are forced to travel to the bustling, beautiful, exotic city of Isfahan where relatives take them in.
Everything is new: the grudging charity of her aunt, the encouragement of her uncle, one of the finest carpet-makers in the world, who begins to teach her his craft, the treacherous friendship of the daughter of rich neighbours. And there's an adventure ahead which will introduce her to the sensual side of life as well as to the cruelty of betrayal and rejection before she finds her way to contentment and possibly, even, to happiness, in a world full of contrasts and dangers.
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I've just read the most wonderful book by Anita Amirezzvani... it is fascinating, totally original and utterly gripping. It will remain one of my favourite books - Esther Freud, Independent on SundayAmirrezvani weaves her own experiences into the prose: giving a sense of the country. - Eastern Courier Messenger and City Messenger, AustraliaThis is a journey of the soul from enslavement to freedom through the creation of the narrators own story. It exudes a vibrancy of colour and sensuousness but also draws vividly the squalor of poverty. - Adelaide AdvertiserSensuous and transporting...filled with the colours, tastes and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan - Geraldine BrooksAmirrezvani... infuses her heroine with lilting eloquence - Washington PostBeautifully imagined... Simply a stunning debut - San Francisco ChronicleLushly written, sensual - Australian Women's Weekly
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