by J. M. Coetzee · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429751109
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«L'edat de ferro» is the novel by J. M. Coetzee, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (208 pages, in Catalan).
In Cape Town, Mrs. Curren, a classics professor ill with cancer, recounts by letter to her daughter in the United States her last days under apartheid. She witnesses the burning of a Black township, finds the body of her servant's son, sees a young activist hiding in her house die, and has only an alcoholic vagrant for company.
Volume 142 of the MOLU s.XX collection - Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Universal Segle XX. Translation by Dolors Udina Abelló of the English original Age of Iron; fifth edition (2002).
For readers of literary fiction and South African literature; Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 and the work won the Premi Llibreter 2003.
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.
