{"product_id":"love-or-barbarism-9781037075124","title":"Love or Barbarism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Thomas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Charles C. Thomas Publisher\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - LGBT - Lesbian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen love defies every boundary society has built, how far would you go to claim what's yours\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRosa Lethlabe \"walks on water\". Widely admired for both her beauty and her brains, she is all the more exceptional for being a young \u003ci\u003eblack\u003c\/i\u003e woman in a white male-dominated world. As a highly successful executive in a Cape Town-based business firm she is far more than just a sop to black affirmative action - she is widely perceived to be on track to becoming the company's next CEO. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDespite being happily married, she is drawn into an obsessive love affair with a white female employee, whose death in childbirth creates life-changing dilemmas for Rosa, as she struggles to win the right to adopt the baby. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story unfolds as a clash between unyielding social barriers inherited from an apartheid-era past and a dogged, equally-unyielding rebellion against all forms of discrimination stifling the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove or Barbarism\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story which raises questions about the meaning of love - not only about the pain and ecstasy experienced by lovers-in-love, and not only about fealty or devotion between partners in marriage, but also about the compulsive commitments which inevitably arise between parents and children.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46310673318039,"sku":"9781037075124","price":1281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781037075124.webp?v=1768665519","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/love-or-barbarism-9781037075124","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}