num_pages: 198
description: Mrs. Cullen, the narrator in this novel, is an elderly white woman dying of cancer in a country afflicted with its own mortal sickness.
language: English
title: Age of Iron
titlecomplete: Age of Iron
characters: Mrs. Curren
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, 20th Century, South Africa, African Literature, Contemporary, Nobel Prize, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4798
places: Cape Town
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Premi Llibreter de narrativa
publisher: Vintage