Age of Iron

“Capetown, south Africa. Mrs Curren, a dying classics professor, is writing to her daughter in America. Having quietly opposed apartheid all her life, she is suddenly confronted by its true horrors: the burning of a township, the persecution of her servant’s son, the murder of an activist who seeks sanctuary in her home. When a homeless man appears on her doorstep, Mrs Curren gradually awakens to her own complicity in a regime of iron in which no soul can survive unblemished …”