{"product_id":"9780241998021","title":"On Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003eBOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORKER AND KIRKUS \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Devorah Baum is a visionary writer. Her intellectual depth, her emotional precision and her searing insight can only be gathered under an old fashioned word: wisdom' Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA shining exploration of why we marry from writer and academic Devorah Baum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor better or worse, for richer for poorer, till death us do part - we've always done it and we're still doing it. Of all our cultural institutions, marriage is the most ancient, but also the most puzzling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this compelling and delightful book, Devorah Baum examines the many meanings we have given to marriage, interweaving the personal with insights from a host of writers, artists and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Freud to Ferrante, and One Thousand and One Nights to Fleabag, she looks at marriage in all of its forms - from act of love to leap of faith, and asks: what are we really doing when we say 'I do'?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth celebration and critique, On Marriage is a guide like no other to the landscape of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A hugely thought-provoking, witty, warm tour around every significant writer and thinker on love to have emerged since Adam and Eve' Alain de Botton\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49647705456888,"sku":"EB_SS0700_C10-01_SYDNEY","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780241998021-1.jpg?v=1783582740","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/zh\/products\/9780241998021","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}