Life and Times of Michael K - J.M.Coetzee

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Published by Secker and Warburg, 1983 first edition, 2 nd reprint.

ISBN: 0436102978

Condition: Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of edge wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Beautiful and neat gift inscription on first page.

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 the war follows him wherever he goes. Life and Times of Michael K is the story of a man caught up in a war beyond his understanding, but determined to live his life, however minimally, on his own terms.

Winner of the Booker Prize and the Prix Etranger Fémina.

Set in a South Africa ravaged by civil war. Michael K, working as a gardener in Cape Town, undertakes an arduous journey back to his mother's rural home."This is a truly astonishing novel ... I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough" Evening Standard."It strikes deep inside the heart ...The story is clean, clear, straight, the work of a mature imagination at full power ... here is a book that will be celebrated for a long time" Mail on Sunday
J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and the Jesus Trilogy. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.