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Age of Iron

(1990)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee)

Set in South Africa, this is the story of a retired university teacher who learns, in the same day, that she is dying of cancer and that she has a vagrant in her yard. The story describes the contrast between the dreams of the old woman and the political and social situation around her.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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