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Life and Times of Michael K

A Novel

A Novel

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

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Jan 08, 1985 | ISBN 9780140074482

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    About Life and Times of Michael K

    From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. 

    J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    In a South Africa turned by 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.

    About Life and Times of Michael K

    From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee. 

    J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    In a South Africa turned by 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.

    Also by J. M. Coetzee

    The Death of Jesus
    Late Essays
    The Schooldays of Jesus
    The Good Story
    The Childhood of Jesus
    See all books by J. M. Coetzee

    Also by J. M. Coetzee

    The Death of Jesus
    Late Essays
    The Schooldays of Jesus
    The Good Story
    The Childhood of Jesus
    See all books by J. M. Coetzee

    About J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD degree in literature. In 1972, he returned to South Africa… More about J. M. Coetzee

    About J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD degree in literature. In 1972, he returned to South Africa… More about J. M. Coetzee

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Military Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 08, 1985 | 192 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140074482

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 03, 2017 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9781524705480

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    Praise

    “An outstanding achievment.” —Nadine Gordimer

    “A major work of crystalline intensity.” —Los Angeles Times

    “So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one’s eye has been sharpened, one’s hearing vivified.” —The New York Times Book Review

    Awards

    Man Booker Prize for Fiction WINNER

    Nobel Prize in Literature WINNER

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