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Title: Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0-14-027565-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth your time
Comment: Coetzee presents us with a picture of apartheid from the perspective of an old woman in South Africa who had never had a chance to get close her own country's reality.
Definitely worth your time. Easy to read too.
Rating: 3
Summary: a painfully honest, brutal account of death and apartheid..
Comment: 'Age of Iron' is typical Coetzee material in that it is extremely well written and portrays South Africa, in this case 1980s South Africa, as a very strange place where its national psyche is badly twisted. In 'Age of Iron' the narrator is a elderly white woman dying of cancer. Not only does she no longer understand her country she has trouble grasping the notion of life, death and in-between. And then a homeless black man comes into her life (..she let's him in) and then she really starts pouring out here emotions.
On one level I really liked 'Age of Iron'. Coetzee doesn't hold back on his brutal account of a country broken by apartheid. And much of the dialogue between the dying woman and her homeless friend is most thought-provoking. However the author has a tendency to over-cook the dialogue, stretching to the point of being a dissertation of all the evils of mankind. It is as if Coetzee couldn't restrain himself from telling the world how smart he is. Message to Coetzee: less would have be more, much more.
Bottom line: certainly an intriguing yet rather flawed novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Troubles of Nation.
Comment: This book really takes us inside just how disconcerting life must be, must have been, within the waning years of Apartheid for those whites in South Africa who grew up with this horrendous system yet could not contemplate their lives with out it, even if they were not actively racist themselves. The female lead's, and Coetzee always astounds me with his writing from a female perspective (I wonder if actual females would agree), confusion in dealing with the later years of Apartheid allow us to view in sympathy those whites caught up in the system by circumstance while not ignoring the great tragedy that Apartheid was to the Black majority. It also sheds a light on the perception issues that we face in the United States across the racial divide.
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Title: Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee ISBN: 014006110X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0140296409 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee, Michael Coetzee ISBN: 0140074481 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0140062289 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 014026566X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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