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The blood of flowers : a novel
- Title
- The blood of flowers : a novel / Anita Amirrezvani.
- Author
- Amirrezvani, Anita.
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
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- Publisher description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3601.M57 B56 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 377 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In Persia, in the seventeenth century, 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 expectation of marriage, her plans for the future - and cast her and 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 knows only that she must act on her own, risking everything, or face a life lived at the whim of others."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780316065764
- 0316065765
- LCCN
- 2006023034
- OCLC
- OCM70684758
- 70684758
- SCSB-5343400
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries