Iron time
Eiserne Zeit (Original title: Age of Iron) is a novel from 1990 by the South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee . Iron Age is one of his most famous works and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1990. In this novel, JM Coetzee shows the social and political tragedies of a country marked by racism and violence.
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The novel shows the journey of Mrs. Curren, an old philology professor. She lives in Cape Town during the apartheid period , where she is slowly passing away due to her cancer. Mrs. Curren was an opponent of the apartheid regime all her life, but has never actively rallied or protested against it. Now that she is at the end of her life, she sees the horror of the system in his ugly face: She witnesses how a black community is burned down and the son of her servant is killed, as well as the shooting of a young black activist, Mrs. . Curren provided shelter by security guards. Because of this machinery of violence among both whites and blacks, Mrs. Curren remembers her past and her daughter who left the country because of the situation in South Africa. Because of this, the novel is a long letter from mother to daughter who lives in the United States of America . As the story progresses, Mrs. Curren constructs an unequal relationship with Vercueil, an old homeless man who sleeps in Mrs. Curren's driveway, and Mrs. Curren becomes aware of her black maid Florence.
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- ↑ Notable Biographies - Biography . Encyclopedia of World Biographies. Retrieved June 24, 2014.