The Blood Of FlowersSet in seventeenth century Iran, The Blood of Flowers is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood. 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,