So although I stuck to the major events described by the court chronicles, I had to invent all the details and motivations for the events, as well as most of the characters.
I try to tell the historical story in "Equal of the Sun" through the eyes of the women and the eunuchs who were involved in the bid for power that took place during that period, but who never had a chance to write anything about it (or if they did, it has been lost). Since Eskander Beg was a man, he would have had limited access to the women of the court. One of my key sources for "Equal of the Sun" was a 1,000-page court chronicle written by a historian named Eskander Beg, who served in his post for something like 40 years and understood deeply how the court operated.Īnd that leads me to your second question. Web blood flower (asclepias curassavica) is a plant native to the american tropics of the caribbean. I like to use primary sources if I can find them. I research my books by reading a lot of scholarly work about Iran, both in English and French. I like to use primary sources i …more Dear Sam, The novel begins in the 1620s in a remote village where the narrator (whose name, in the Iranian storytelling tradition, we are never to know) lives with her mother and rug-maker father.
Anita Amirrezvani Dear Sam, Good questions! I research my books by reading a lot of scholarly work about Iran, both in English and French. Set in seventeenth-century Iran, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS is the powerful and haunting story of a young girl's journey from innocence to adulthood.
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