Life And Times Of Michael K

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<p><b>In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home.</b>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.<i>Life and Times of Michael K</i>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.</p><p><b>'This is a truly astonishing novel... I finished<i>Life&Times of Michael K</i>in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough'<i>Evening Standard</i></b></p>

Autorenportrait

<b>J.M. Coetzee</b>s work includes<i>Waiting for the Barbarians</i>,<i>Life&Times of Michael K</i>,<i>Boyhood</i>,<i>Youth</i>,<i>Disgrace</i>,<i>Summertime</i>,<i>The Childhood of Jesus</i>and, most recently,<i>The Schooldays of Jesus</i>. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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