She’s also strong-willed, often inspiring Gordiyeh’s wrath. Without sons, Gostaham has no heir to his art, but his newly appeared niece shows both supreme talent and unwavering dedication to learn. Gostaham, an artisan rug-maker to the Shah, is not an unkind man, but he has little control over his manipulative wife Gordiyeh who proves to be less than welcoming. There they enter the lavish home of a wealthy (half-)uncle with nothing, they quickly become servants. But mother and daughter suddenly find themselves alone, and their only option is to seek the protection of her late father’s relatives in the faraway city of Isfahan. As a 14-year-old living in a 17th-century Persian village, she expected to be contentedly married, looking forward to starting her own family, not unlike her best friend who is already heavy with pregnancy. When her father dies, a girl and her mother’s futures are forever altered.
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