{"product_id":"love-or-barbarism-charles-thomas-9781037075124","title":"Love or Barbarism","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1037075129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781037075124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles C. Thomas Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"Charles Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659649265919,"sku":"9781037075124","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-or-barbarism-charles-thomas-9781037075124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}