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In Iranian-American Amirrezvani's lushly orchestrated debut, a comet signals misfortune to the remote 17th-century Persian village where the nameless narrator lives modestly but happily with her parents, both of whom expect to see the 14-year-old married within the year. Her fascination with rug making is a pastime they indulge only for the interim, but her father's untimely death prompts the girl to travel with her mother to the city of Isfahan, where the two live as servants in the opulent home of an uncle—a wealthy rug maker to the Shah. The only marriage proposal now in the offing is a three-month renewable contract with the son of a horse trader. Teetering on poverty and shame, the girl weaves fantasies for her temporary husband's pleasure and exchanges tales with her beleaguered mother until, having mastered the art of making and selling carpets under her uncle's tutelage, she undertakes to free her mother and herself.
Compra de libros
The Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2007
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- The Blood of Flowers
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Anita Amirrezvani
- Editorial
- Back Bay Books
- Publicado en
- 2007
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 393
- ISBN10
- 0316007978
- ISBN13
- 9780316007979
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Arte, Mujeres, Madurez, Asia, Siglo XVII, Irán, Medio Oriente y Cercano Oriente
- Descripción
- In Iranian-American Amirrezvani's lushly orchestrated debut, a comet signals misfortune to the remote 17th-century Persian village where the nameless narrator lives modestly but happily with her parents, both of whom expect to see the 14-year-old married within the year. Her fascination with rug making is a pastime they indulge only for the interim, but her father's untimely death prompts the girl to travel with her mother to the city of Isfahan, where the two live as servants in the opulent home of an uncle—a wealthy rug maker to the Shah. The only marriage proposal now in the offing is a three-month renewable contract with the son of a horse trader. Teetering on poverty and shame, the girl weaves fantasies for her temporary husband's pleasure and exchanges tales with her beleaguered mother until, having mastered the art of making and selling carpets under her uncle's tutelage, she undertakes to free her mother and herself.