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LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K
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| By: |
J. M. Coetzee |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140074481 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140074482 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
8 January, 1985 |
| Series: |
King Penguin S. |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. |
| Synopsis: |
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his ailing 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. This life-affirming novel goes to the center 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1983 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |