Age of Iron
Published on 7. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-241-98393-5 (ISBN)
Description
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in 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.
In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times.
'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph
'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times
'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal
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.
In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times.
'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph
'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times
'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal
Reviews / Votes
It is, quite simply, a magnificent and unforgettable work * Daily Telegraph * A superbly realised novel whose truth cuts to the bone * The New York Times * A fierce pageant of modern South Africa ... A remarkable work by a brilliant writer * Wall Street Journal * Coetzee is one of the greatest writers of our time ... Age of Iron is taut, ironic, grieving and, finally, astonishing * Los Angeles Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
121 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-98393-5 (9780241983935)
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Person
J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awared the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia.