An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs Curren rec...
An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township; discovers the bullet-riddled body of her servant's son, and a teenage black activist hiding in her house, who is killed by security forces. And through it all, her only companion is a homeless man, an alcoholic who appears on her doorstep. J M Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
Life is as cold as iron, no matter at which age we are. Is it true that we want love itself when we seek for love? But for warmth actually? Life is too short to answer such a question, especially duri...Life is as cold as iron, no matter at which age we are. Is it true that we want love itself when we seek for love? But for warmth actually? Life is too short to answer such a question, especially during an age full of killing and despair.(展开)
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0 有用 Alice 2011-01-15 07:39:36
相比之下，对这本书的感触并不深刻。因为是assignment，当时囫囵吞枣得读了，也没有重读的意愿了
0 有用 午饭 2018-08-27 12:18:54
男扮女裝的開始。逼叨叨的白左（想到白左這個稱謂的人須吃一點…）老太，是否像伊麗莎白那樣在臨終前想到dog和god是anagram呢？
0 有用 f 2022-09-29 09:22:10 新加坡
等会考🙏
0 有用 Alethia 2020-03-29 03:54:06
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0 有用 安西 2011-02-11 09:59:19
Life is as cold as iron, no matter at which age we are. Is it true that we want love itself when we seek for love? But for warmth actually? Life is too short to answer such a question, especially duri... Life is as cold as iron, no matter at which age we are. Is it true that we want love itself when we seek for love? But for warmth actually? Life is too short to answer such a question, especially during an age full of killing and despair. (展开)