 Ostensibly a tale of romance, the book delves deeply into themes of censorship as the author struggles, in the text, with writing a love story that he'll be able to get past Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Office of Censorship.The novel is not only a love story, but it is also a story about the love of writing and an account of life in post-Islamic Revolution Iran.In the novel two narratives are intertwined.