Age of Iron
by:
J.M. Coetzee (author)
Mrs. Curren, the narrator of this haunting new novel by the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, is an elderly white woman dying of cancer in a country afflicted with its own mortal sickness. Her letter to her daughter charts the progression of both diseases in language that is both shattering...
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Mrs. Curren, the narrator of this haunting new novel by the author of Waiting for the Barbarians, is an elderly white woman dying of cancer in a country afflicted with its own mortal sickness. Her letter to her daughter charts the progression of both diseases in language that is both shattering and sensuously precise.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394588599 (0394588592)
Publish date: September 12th 1990
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 198
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
African Literature
Mrs. Curran is dying of cancer. Opposed all her life to the system of apartheid but sheltered from the realities of the cruelty imposed, she is now faced with results that the system has brought. As black townships are burnt, she faces the cancer that is killing her country, turning the souls of th...
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