Headline Review, 2007-05-03. Hardcover. Very Good. 3.8071 cent in x 19.5939 cent in x 16.1929 cent in. FIRST EDITION 2nd printing with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

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In 17th-century Persia, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great.Despite her lowly station, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer of carpets, a rarity in a craft dominated by men. But while her talent flourishes, her prospects for a happy marriage grow dim. Forced into a secret marriage toa wealthy man, the young woman finds herself faced with a daunting decision: forsake her own dignity, or risk everything she has in an effort to create a new life."Anita Amirrezvani has written a sensuous and transporting first novel filled with the colors, tastes and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan...Amirrezvani clearly knows and loves the ways of old Iran, and brings them to life with the cadences of a skilled story-spinner." -- Geraldine Brooks, author of March"An engrossing, enthralling tale of a girl's quest for self-determination in the fascinating other world that was seventeenth-century Iran." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Touchy Subjects and Life Mask

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Bookseller: The Guru Bookshop Ltd, Green Warehouse (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: mon0000056649
Title: The Blood of Flowers
Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0755334191
ISBN 13: 9780755334193
Publisher: Headline Review
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2007-05-03
Bookseller catalogs: Book;
Size: 3.8071 cent in x 19.5939 cent in x 16.1929 cent in

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