La sang de les flors

Synopsis of La sang de les flors

«La sang de les flors» is the historical novel by Anita Amirrezvani, published by La Magrana in paperback (392 pages, in Catalan).

In seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman without a dowry travels to Isfahan with her mother and enters service in the house of an uncle who designs carpets for the court of Shah Abbas. Her talent for that male craft complicates her marriage plans, and a secret marriage to a rich man confronts her with a choice between dignity and freedom.

Volume 238 of the Otros La Magrana collection, published in March 2008. Catalan translation by Elena Martí Segarra.

For readers of historical fiction set in seventeenth-century Persia, with a female protagonist and a coming-of-age tone.