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The Blood of Flowers.

Publication: MELUS
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Blood of Flowers.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The Blood of Flowers. Anita Amirrezvani. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.384 pages. $23.99 hardcover.

The decision to leave her narrator nameless reveals one layer of Anita Amirrezvani's intricate first novel, The Blood of Flowers. From the onset, the author asks the reader to see the narrator as one of many possible young girls living in seventeenth-century Persia. Her story depicts a struggle for independence and identity in a time and place where the odds are against her. The narrative begins with the traditional Persian introduction, "First there wasn't and then there was. Before God, no one was" (3), and unfolds into a layered narrative, where the main story is told and supported through other...

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