“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
The Blood of Flowers
Year
2007
Pages
400
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Praise
“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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