El rojo de las flores

Synopsis of El rojo de las flores

«El rojo de las flores» is the historical novel by Anita Amirrezvani, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (358 pages, in Spanish).

In seventeenth-century Persia, a fourteen-year-old girl and her mother, ruined after the father's death, move to Isfahan and are taken in by a relative who designs carpets for Shah Abbas. The girl discovers her talent for weaving, but pressure to accept a temporary marriage forces her to choose between security and a new life.

The original title of the work is The Blood of Flowers; the original edition was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008.

For book clubs and readers of historical fiction, especially those interested in women's narratives and seventeenth-century Persia.