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Age of iron / J. M. Coetzee.
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9780241951019 (pbk.) :
0241951011 (pbk.) :
Personal Name
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
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Age of iron / J. M. Coetzee.
Publication Details
London : Penguin, 2010.
Physical Description
198 p. ; 20 cm.
Summary Note
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "The Life and Times of Michael K", J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his "Sunday Express" Book of the Year award-winner "Age of Iron". In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Women -- South Africa
Cancer -- Patients -- Cape Town -- Fiction
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