Book DescriptionOnce there was a girl who could make glorious carpets from wool tinted with the essence of orange safflowers and pomegranates...In the fabled city of Isfahan, a 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 future grow dim. Forced into a secret, untenable marriage to a wealthy man, the young woman faces a daunting choice - to forsake her dignity or to risk everything in an effort to create a new life. This spellbinding tale of adversity, adventure, and triumph makes indelibly real the dazzling world of medieval Persia.
"Anita Amirrezvani has written a sensuous and transporting first novel filled with the colors, tastes, and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan. Her spirited young narrator must negotiate her own future in a time and place that is precarious for a woman without family or fortune. Her journey takes her outside the safe but stultifying confines of the women's quarters and into the beautiful but often treacherous city...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
Year of Wonders and
MarchBook Dimensionlength: (cm)23.3 width:(cm)15.3
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