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Book SynopsisLong-listed for the Orange Prize. A stunning and evocative novel set in exotic seventeenth-century Iran, with the power of THE KITE RUNNER, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS and HALF OF A YELLOW SUN.Trade Review'I've just read the most wonderful book by Anita Amirezzvani... it is fascinating, totally original and utterly gripping. It will remain one of my favourite books' * Esther Freud,
Independent on Sunday *
'Amirrezvani weaves her own experiences into the prose: giving a sense of the country.' *
Eastern Courier Messenger and City Messenger, Australia *
'This is a journey of the soul from enslavement to freedom through the creation of the narrators own story. It exudes a vibrancy of colour and sensuousness but also draws vividly the squalor of poverty.' *
Adelaide Advertiser *
'Sensuous and transporting...filled with the colours, tastes and fragrances of life in seventeenth-century Isfahan' * Geraldine Brooks *
'Amirrezvani... infuses her heroine with lilting eloquence' *
Washington Post *
'Beautifully imagined... Simply a stunning debut' *
San Francisco Chronicle *
'Lushly written, sensual' *
Australian Women's Weekly *
