Life & Times of Michael K Paperback - 1985
by J. M. Coetzee
Set during a fictional civil war in South Africa, this book is symbolic that apartheid created in the lives of those so brutally affected by its implementation.
Summary
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.
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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.
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- Title Life & Times of Michael K
- Author J. M. Coetzee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1985-01-08
- ISBN 9780140074482 / 0140074481
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 940
- Library of Congress subjects South Africa, South Africa - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 84019085
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"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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