The Life and Times of Michael K
Author(s): J.M. Coetzee
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.
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Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1983.
J. M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace, which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
General Fields
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.143
- : September 2004
- : 196mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : January 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : J.M. Coetzee
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 823.914
- : very good
- : 192
- : Modern fiction