The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
by Anita Amirrezvani | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0316065765 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0316065765 Global Overview for this book
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ONCE THERE WAS A GIRL WHO COULD MAKE GLORIOUS CARPETS FROM WOLL TINTED WITH THE ESSENCE OF ORANGE SAFFLOWERS AND POMEGRANATES...
In Persia, in the seventheenth centure, a young woman is forced to leave behind the life she knows and move to a new city. Her father's unexpected death has upended everything--her expecitation of marriage, her plans for the future--and cast her mother upon the mercy of relatives in the fabled city of Isfahan.
Her uncle is a wealthy designer of carpets for the Shah's court, and the young woman is instantly drawn to his workshop. She takes in everything--the dyes, the yarns, the meanings of the thousand ancient patterns--and quickly begins designing carpets herself. This is men's work, but her uncle recognizes both her passion and her talent and allows her secretly to cross that line.
But then a single disastrous, headstrong act threatens her very existence and casts her and her mother into an even more desperate situation. She is forced into an untenable form of marriage, a marriage contract renewable monthly, for a fee, to a wealthy businessman. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend, she only knows that she must act on her own, risking everything, or face a life lived at the whim of others.
ONCE THERE WAS A GIRL WHO COULD MAKE GLORIOUS CARPETS FROM WOLL TINTED WITH THE ESSENCE OF ORANGE SAFFLOWERS AND POMEGRANATES...
In Persia, in the seventheenth centure, a young woman is forced to leave behind the life she knows and move to a new city. Her father's unexpected death has upended everything--her expecitation of marriage, her plans for the future--and cast her mother upon the mercy of relatives in the fabled city of Isfahan.
Her uncle is a wealthy designer of carpets for the Shah's court, and the young woman is instantly drawn to his workshop. She takes in everything--the dyes, the yarns, the meanings of the thousand ancient patterns--and quickly begins designing carpets herself. This is men's work, but her uncle recognizes both her passion and her talent and allows her secretly to cross that line.
But then a single disastrous, headstrong act threatens her very existence and casts her and her mother into an even more desperate situation. She is forced into an untenable form of marriage, a marriage contract renewable monthly, for a fee, to a wealthy businessman. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend, she only knows that she must act on her own, risking everything, or face a life lived at the whim of others.
