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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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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Vintage, Ravan
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- French, English, Japanese, vie
- ISBN
- 9781409027690
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John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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