Life and Times of Michael K - Softcover

Coetzee, J M

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9780099268345: Life and Times of Michael K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099268345 ISBN 13: 9780099268345

Publisher: Vintage, 1998

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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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"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
"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
"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

"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"

"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

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"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

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003

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