The Blood Of Flowers
$27.71
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2008
Summary
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755334216 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0755334213 |
| Author: | Anita Amirrezvani |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 133mm x 29mm |
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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 Sunday
Amirrezvani 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 WeeklyAbout The Author
Anita Amirrezvani
Anita Amirrezvani was born in Iran but has lived in the USA since she was a young child. She has visited Iran many times and has been steeped in tales of Iranian life and history from an early age. The Blood of Flowers is her first novel.
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