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The blood of flowers : a novel (original: 2007; edição: 2007)

de Anita Amirrezvani

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A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.

In 17th-century Iran, 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 to a 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.

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Membro:SleepyReader
Título:The blood of flowers : a novel
Autores:Anita Amirrezvani
Informação:New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
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The Blood of Flowers de Anita Amirrezvani (2007)

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this was surprisingly compelling when i think about what i usually care about in a story. for some reason, the carpet making was fascinating to me, even as i don't really feel that i learned much about it. but i kind of feel like i could have read about that forever. i was so absorbed in the story that i didn't even notice that the main character wasn't named until over 1/3 of the way through, and then it was easily forgotten again. but i really like this aspect, maybe not quite for the reason the author meant, but because of how anonymous women are when covered from head to toe in a chador. how they are seen for their separate body parts and not who they are, like an unnamed narrator can be, but how we see how much more there is to her.

i really liked the interspersing of the folktales and oral stories passed down; it worked really well here. this was a really interesting look at an iran hundreds of years ago, and what life was like for a segment of the population. the idea of the temporary marriage, the sigheh, was particularly interesting, and i can see how it can both really help and really hurt someone, often at the same time. ( )
  overlycriticalelisa | Jul 23, 2023 |
Ventana abierta a un mundo tan lejano como desconocido, rica en fascinantes detalles sobre la vida cotidiana en la Persia del siglo XVII, esta novela cuenta la historia de una joven audaz y perseverante que logra transformar su vida gracias a su extraordinario don para confeccionar alfombras. A los catorce años, tras la prematura muerte de su padre, la protagonista ve cómo sus posibilidades de matrimonio se desvanecen, lo que la obliga a marcharse del pueblo con su madre y trasladarse a la capital, Isfahán, donde un pariente lejano las acoge como sirvientas. Sin dote y condenada a depender de la caridad ajena, la joven huérfana no tendrá más remedio que aceptar un sigué, un contrato de matrimonio temporal, pero gracias a la ayuda de su tío, diseñador de alfombras en la corte del sah, tendrá ocasión de descubrir los secretos del antiguo arte de tejer alfombras, su tradición, el significado de sus dibujos y el origen vegetal de sus vibrantes colores.
  Natt90 | Jul 19, 2022 |
In het begin heeft het even geduurd voor het boek me "beet", maar daarna vond ik het prachtig. ( )
  ArtieVeerle | Oct 22, 2021 |
I wasn't sure I was going to like this as much as I did...for some reason, I thought there were going to be more fantastical elements included in the story (apparently I'm not very good at reading plot synopses...), and I eventually figured out this was just going to be straight up historical fiction. Ha! And for an audiobook, a format of which I'm still trying to become a good listener, I was even more surprised as the plot moved relatively slowly. It was all on account of reader Shohreh Aghdashloo's rich delivery that I swooned over the craft of weaving and the unnamed narrator's awed culture shock of acclimating to Isfahan. I really appreciated how strong and flawed the narrator was and how believable she was written as a teenager experiencing young marriage and class divisions particular to 17th-century Iran. Two thumbs up!

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Read Harder: Historical fiction set before 1900. ( )
  LibroLindsay | Jun 18, 2021 |
rabck from bookstogive; historical fiction set in late 1600s Persia (Iran) about the coming of age of a girl who is a very good rug knotter. After her father dies, her mother & she leave their village to live with a very distant relative of her father's, who is a master rug designer, in servitude to his family. But what a great opportunity for her to learn all the intricacies of rug design. I will never look at a "Persian" rug the same again. I had no idea of what it takes to make one by hand. ( )
  nancynova | Feb 21, 2021 |
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"Anita Amirrezvani's first novel is about the costs and consolations of beauty, and is itself so picturesque that it often seems a striking variation on its own theme."
 

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.

In 17th-century Iran, 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 to a 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.

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