The Morning After

An aristocratic young woman marries a carpenter, & ... The Morning After is a gripping Persian tale of love and marriage... The novel has been hotly debated and criticized. Advocates found it useful for the relationship between young men and women or considered it a lesson for inexperienced youth. Opponents saw it as a defense of the nobility and dignity of the upper classes of society and the humiliation of the lower. You can't imagine what it was like for a fifteen-year-old girl in those days; to fall in love was a sin in itself which could cause a blood bath; never mind writing letters, never mind turning down suitors-falling in love? Falling in love with the carpenter's shop boy at the top of the passage? Woe betide! ....."