Age of Iron

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Secker & Warburg, 1990 - Fiction - 180 pages
By the author of The Booker Prizewinning L̀ife and times of Michael K'. A woman is dying of cancer. As she tries to make her peace with the world, she has to cope with the strife of 1986 South Africa in the persons of two black children on the run from the police.

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Section 1
3
Section 2
33
Section 3
81
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About the author (1990)

J.M. Coetzee's full name is John Michael Coetzee. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940, Coetzee is a writer and critic who uses the political situation in his homeland as a backdrop for many of his novels. Coetzee published his first work of fiction, Dusklands, in 1974. Another book, Boyhood, loosely chronicles an unhappy time in Coetzee's childhood when his family moved from Cape Town to the more remote and unenlightened city of Worcester. Other Coetzee novels are In the Heart of the Country and Waiting for the Barbarians. Coetzee's critical works include White Writing and Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship. Coetzee is a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize and in 2003, he won the Nobel Literature Award.

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