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040			_aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
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020			_a9780316065764 (hardcover) _c$20.39.
100			_aAmirrezvani, Anita.
245	1	4	_aThe blood of flowers : _ba novel / _cby Anita Amirrezvani.
250			_a1st ed.
260	0		_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown, _cc2007.
300			_a377 p. ; _c25 cm.
520			_a"In Persia, in the seventeenth century, a young woman is forced to leave behind the life she knows and move to a new city. Her father's unexpected death has upended everything - her expectation of marriage, her plans for the future - and cast her and her mother upon the mercy of relatives in the fabled city of Isfahan." "her uncle is a wealthy designer of carpets for the Shah's court, and the young woman is instantly drawn to his workshop. She takes in everything - the dyes, the yearns, the meanings of the thousand ancient patterns - and quickly begins designing carpets herself. This is men's work, but her uncle recognizes both her passion and her talent and allows her secretly to cross that line." "But then a single disastrous, headstrong act threatens her very existence and casts her and her mother into an even more desperate situation. She is forced into an untenable form of marriage, a marriage contract renewable monthly, for a fee, to a wealthy businessman. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend, she knows only that she must act on her own, risking everything, or face a life lived at the whim of others."--BOOK JACKET.
650			_aYoung women _xFiction.
650			_aWomen weavers _xFiction.
650			_aRugs _xFiction.
651			_aIran _xHistory _ySafavid dynasty, 1501-1736 _xFiction.
655			_aHistorical fiction.
942			_c UKN
999			_c49191 _d49191