In the seventeenth century, unexpected events are always ominous. Assuming this is a bad omen from the gods, the villagers panic. Shortly before her arranged marriage takes place, a comet streaks across the Iranian skyline. Life, however, doesn’t go according to plan for Joonam.
Only thirteen at the novel’s outset, she is already promised to an older Iranian boy she knows she will be expected to stop working once she is married. Although she is talented and her parents are very proud of her, her skills aren’t important. She is content to work as an apprentice carpet marker. Joonam lives in a small Iranian village with her parents. The Blood of Flowers is set in seventeenth-century Persia. Her mother calls her Joonam as a mark of affection, but it is not her real name. She is a teenage girl when the novel opens.
This is deliberate on Amirrezvani’s part, as she wants readers to think of all Iranian artists when they read the narrative. Readers never learn the name of the narrator in The Blood of Flowers. She currently teaches at Sonoma State University and the California College of the Arts. Amirrezvani is the award-winning author of historical and literary fiction. Amirrezvani’s debut novel, it was highly acclaimed upon publication and received a nomination for the 2008 Orange Prize. The Blood of Flowers (2007) an Iranian historical novel by Anita Amirrezvani, follows a young woman who is a skilled rug designer, and the challenges she faces as she tries to live a life of her own making.
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