Age of Iron

Informationen zum Autor J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awared the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia. Klappentext J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1940. The author of some fifteen novels and winner of numerous awards, Coetzee is the first author to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. In 2003 he was awared the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Australia. Zusammenfassung In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors.

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• Authors: J. M. Coetzee
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780241951019
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95101-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Viking
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Südafrikanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, 20th Century, War & combat fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Republic of South Africa