Set in seventeenth-century Iran THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girls journey from innocence to adulthood. A village girls dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. Cast on the mercy of relatives in fabled Isfahan she and her mother are reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets - an invaluable skill. Hope is short-lived for a disastrous headstrong act results in the girls disgrace. Caught between forces she can barely comprehend she faces a life lived at the whim of others - unless she is prepared to risk everything and choose a future based on her own strength and will. THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS tells an unforgettable story: a tale of sensuality of the treachery of friendship of the power of love and of the fragile possibility of finding happiness against all odds.
