num_pages: 368
description: In the fabled city of Isfahan, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate: Her beloved father had died and left her without a dowry. Forced to work as a servant in the home of her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the Shah, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer of carpets. But while her talent flourishes, her prospects for a happy marriage grow dim, and she finds herself faced with a daunting decision--to forsake her own dignity or to risk everything in an effort to maintain it.Both a sweeping love story and a luminous portrait of a city, The Blood of Flowers is the mesmerizing historical novel of an ill-fated young woman whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life. Illuminated with glorious detail of Persian rug-making, and brilliantly bringing to life the sights sounds and life of 17th-century Isfahan, The Blood of Flowers has captured readers' imaginations everywhere as a timeless tale of one woman's struggle to live a life of her choosing.
language: English
title: The Blood of Flowers
titlecomplete: The Blood of Flowers
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Womens, Book Club, 17th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Cultural, Romance
ratings_count: 18266
places: Persia, Middle East, Isfahan, Iran
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Little, Brown and Company