The blood of flowers : a novel / Anita Amirrezvani.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316065764
- ISBN: 0316065765
- Physical Description: 377 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
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- Subject:
- Young women > Fiction.
Women weavers > Fiction.
Rugs > Fiction.
Iran > History > Ṣafavid dynasty, 1501-1736 > Fiction. - Genre:
- Historical fiction.
Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F AMIRREZVANI (Text) | 30665100198781 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | F AMI (Text) | 0020507234001 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | FIC Amirrezvani, Anita (Text) | 0112516435768 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Goldsboro Library | F AMI (Text) | 640191003305438 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | F Amirrezvani (Text) | 33115006435249 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lee County Main Library | F/AMIRREZVANI (Text) | 33262002799978 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | F AMIRREZVANI Anita (Text) | 50669011571636 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Mountains Branch Library | F Ami (Text) | 38801101504022 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Newport | F AMI (Text) | 34208202649041 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Reynolda Manor Branch | FIC Amirrezvani, Anita (Text) | 0112515560681 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
