Paperback, 208 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 1998 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Age of Iron is a 1990 novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is among his most popular works and was the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In it, he paints a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence. Critically acclaimed, it remains one of the most striking pieces of literature regarding South African apartheid and is still used in schools worldwide for literature studies.
Another masterpiece by Coetzee - the dark edge of South Africa in the transition from Apartheid, told through symbols that address the change from old to new, old to young.
