{"product_id":"9780060834876","title":"The Cleft","description":"By: Doris Lessing     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Doris Lessing, \"one of the most important writers of the past hundred years\" (\u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind's beginnings.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the last years of his life, a Roman senator retells the history of human creation and reveals the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child—a boy—the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":48094597251299,"sku":"DTRHCUS-9780060834876","price":112.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780060834876.jpg?v=1770678158","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9780060834876","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}