![]() ![]() The narrator and her mother are forced to move to the city and beg support from the girls’ uncle, Gostaham, a famous carpet designer, and his rather cruel wife. ![]() The story is narrated by a young village girl who, on the approach of marriageable age, finds her destiny altered when, first, a comet (perceived as a bad omen) blazes across the sky, and, soon after, her beloved father dies. The author, of Iranian descent but raised in San Francisco, spent nine years researching and writing this novel, which was won by Headline in a ‘hotly contested auction’ and is released in Australia in May 2007. Sydney, 2007, 377 pp, RRP $32.95, ISBN 97807553 34209Īnita Amirrezvani’s novel is a colorful and beautifully told story set in seventeenth century Isfahan (Iran). ![]()
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