by J.M. Coetzee · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497932035
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«La edad de hierro» is the novel by J.M. Coetzee, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
A South African woman who knows she is going to die writes a long letter to her daughter, who lives far away in the United States, while her country is torn apart under apartheid. After a visit to the doctor with bad news, she finds a black vagrant in her shed and an intimate, ambiguous relationship is born between them that accompanies them through a particularly harsh historical moment.
Originally published as «Age of Iron» in 1990. Translated by Javier Calvo. The edition belongs to the Contemporánea collection.
A work for readers of contemporary fiction, with an interest in South African literature and in authors awarded the Nobel Prize.
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.
