Age of Iron
by J.M. Coetzee
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A novel by the Booker Prize winning author of "Life & Time of Michael K", "Foe", and "Waiting For The Barbarians". In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township and discovers the bullet-riddled body of her servant's son. A teenage black activist hiding in her house is killed by security forces. And through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man, an alcoholic, who one day appears on her doorstep. Brilliantly crafted and resonant with metaphor, Age of Iron is "a superbly realized novel whose truths cut to the bone." (The New York Times Book Review)..
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Synopsis
Age of Iron is a 1990 novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is among his most popular works and was the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In it, he paints a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence.
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- Title
- Age of Iron
- Author
- J.M. Coetzee
- Book Condition
- New As New in like DJ, As Shown
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 198
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction
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