Age of Iron

by Coetzee, J. M

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New York: Random House Inc, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Very Good+ DJ. 8vo. Light edgewear to jacket, tiny tear to one corner. Book tight & unmarked throughout. Mild edgewear, a spot or two of rubbing. First US edition from the Nobel and Booker winner. 198pp.

Book summary

A dying old woman in Cape Town, South Africa, narrates this book in the form of a letter to her daughter in America. As she dies, she bears witness to the brutal excesses of apartheid: Her servant's son is murdered, a nearby town is burnt to the ground, and an activist she shelters is killed in her house. As her cancer progresses and increasingly threatens her life, so does the corrupt political system of South Africa.

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