{"id":17405,"date":"2026-02-28T08:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/msp-journal.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:33:47","slug":"the-blood-of-flowers-anita-amirrezvani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=17405","title":{"rendered":"The Blood of Flowers \u2013 Anita Amirrezvani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blood of Flowers \u2013 Anita Amirrezvani<\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1620s in the Iranian city of Isfahan, The Blood of Flowers is a look at societal discrepancies and hypocrisies \u2013 at first. As one reads further, one realises that the book is more than just another surface critique and that the starring role here is occupied by beauty \u2013 beauty that is anonymously created, yet widely appreciated. The story is told through the eyes of the 15 year old narrator who remains unnamed as a \u2018tribute to the anonymous artisans of Iran\u2019 as explained by the author. The narrator, a girl whose father has died without leaving a dowry for her, is taken in by her uncle, a well-respected and well-known carpet designer in the Shah\u2019s court. As such, she straddles the two worlds of poverty and wealth, of deprivation and opulence. She herself has a natural talent for knotting carpets and is taken under her uncle\u2019s wings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image0025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" src=\"http:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/image0025.jpg\" alt=\"image002\" width=\"182\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The novel gives one a clear-eyed look at the times with detailed descriptions that are rich yet not bogged down by their own details. With a knowledgeable description of the art of Persian rug making and the book is more about the freedom provided by art than the restrictions of the narrator\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>Deepa Varshney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blood of Flowers \u2013 Anita Amirrezvani Set in the 1620s in the Iranian city of Isfahan, The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}