Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a youngAcirc; girls journey from innocence to adulthood. Acirc; The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father. On the sudden death of her father, our heroine and her mother fall upon hard times and are forced to travel to the bustling, beautiful,Acirc; exotic city of Isfahan where relatives take them in. Everything is new: the grudging charity of her aunt, theAcirc; encouragement of her uncle, one of the finest carpet-makers in the world, who begins to teach her his craft, theAcirc; treacherous friendship of the daughter of rich neighbours. And theres an adventure ahead which will introduce her to the sensual side of life as well as to the cruelty of betrayal and rejection before she finds her way to contentment and possibly, even, to happiness, in a world full of contrasts and dangers.