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Author:

Amirrezvani, Anita.

Title:

The blood of flowers : a novel / Anita Amirrezvani.

Edition:

1st Back Bay trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Back Bay Books/Little Brown,

Copyright Date:

2008, c2007

Description:

377 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Young women--Fiction.
Women weavers--Fiction.
Rugs--Fiction.
Iran--History--£̀Øafavid dynasty, 1501-1736--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Women weavers--Fiction.
Rugs and carpets--Fiction.
Iran--History--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

The death of her father leads a teenage girl in seventeenth-century Iran to go live with her mother as a servant in the home of her uncle, a wealthy rug designer in the court of the Shah, where she is able to develop her talent for rug design--a skill that becomes vital to her survival after her lack of a dowry forces her into a contract marriage, renewable every three months, with the son of a horse trader.

ISBN:

0316065773
9780316065771 (pbk.)

Locations:

HMPB845 -- Boyden Public Library (Boyden)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)