by J. M. Coetzee · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241983935
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«Age of Iron» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Penguin Books in paperback (208 pages, in English).
In Cape Town, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter about her final days. Under apartheid, she witnesses police harassment of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby township, and the murder of a young activist who takes refuge in her house; her only companion will be a vagrant who appears at her door.
This edition is part of the Penguin Essentials collection (number 79). The novel was originally published in 1990. J. M. Coetzee received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
For readers of literary fiction and historical narrative about apartheid South Africa.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
