Her father vanished along the Silk Road. Now, his secrets from a painful past return with the appearance of a mysterious weaver.After her mother dies in childbirth, Saina's distraught father sells her into servitude and disappears on the Silk Road. Now a young woman, she has gained favor serving the head wife in a bustling roadside inn outside the ancient trade city of Samarkand.
When a mysterious weaver and his handsome grandson arrive from a distant city, bringing with them the garment her father wore the day he abandoned her, clues about her family's past begin to emerge. And so do her feelings for the weaver's grandson. But her father's actions have doomed her to a life of servitude and she struggles to imagine a life where she is truly free to love.
Teeming with the allure and mystery of ancient Samarkand, The Weaver's Tapestry addresses the paths the human spirit takes through loyalty and betrayal, remembrance and forgiveness, and the hope that beckons us forward.
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Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
mit Schutzumschlag
Maße
Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
979-8-9920270-2-0 (9798992027020)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Anna C. Snyder was inspired by her daughter's Central Asian lineage when she began writing her novel The Weaver's Tapestry. Through words on the page, Anna seeks to resurrect the ancient Sogdians, a long-forgotten people, whose influence in trade helped shape countries and cultures along the Silk Road.She lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband, three children, and a German Shepherd.
