Name: POLAND, Marguerite - Iron Love - (Paperback Signed by Author)
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POLAND, Marguerite - Iron Love - (Paperback Signed by Author)

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(NO MORE THAT 4 BOOKS PER ORDER ALLOWED SO THAT PARCEL WEIGHS 2 kg. OR LESS) - Book still in a good condition and signed by author on title page - Also has previous owner's name in front - 432 pg. >>> I loved this novel. I loved the gentle and subtle way that it entwined you into its pages and the lives of the boys. I loved the memories of Grahamstown that it invoked and the way it gave me, as a white English South African a sense of belonging. It had no agenda, no political statement it was just a story about youth, love and acceptance. And Honour. You cannot forget honour. - It did of course make me cry and as the pages turned, I grew attached to the boys and their individual and combined stories but also for the loss of an attitude and a sense of decency and honour (it always seems to come back to honour). I cried for the fictional characters and the not so fictional characters who did experience the atrocities in West Africa and the Trenches. I cried for the loss of innocence and honour. But then at the same time I laughed when they laughed and celebrated when a rugby try was scored. - One of the many things I loved about this novel was the fact that I could connect with the characters, their strengths and their weaknesses; even though I am a woman and am living in the 21st Century. The characters were real; they were tangible and your opinions of them changed and developed and you just knew that Unwin wasn't as pathetic-or wouldn't stay as pathetic as he seemed. That he would come into his own. But I suppose that has something to do with the overwhelming power of the underdog. - Marguerite Poland is one of my favourite authors, she seems to sketch the most intricate and delicate images with becoming heavy handed or bombarding you with imagery and information. - This novel also gave a gentler view of South Africa, quite unlike the harsh opinion of J.M Coetzee and Zakes Mda. Perhaps it was the period about which she was writing-the turn of the century when things were simpler and I suppose times were a lot more innocent than they are now or have been. But I did not feel guilty about being a white South African as other South African novels have made me feel. - Even though they didn't always feel like they belonged; they did... They would all become Old boys and they would always have the shared history of being at the school. So, in that sense they did belong. But I think now I will stop before I give the game away.

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