Life

Life & Times of Michael K

By - Coetzee, J. M.,
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Viking Press, New York, 1984, ©1983
ISBN 10 - 0099268345
ISBN 13 - 9780099268345
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - South Africa
Shelf No - 7
Call Number - 823 COT
Physical Description - 184 pages ; 23 cm
Book Information
In South Africa, whose civil administration is colapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors. The story 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. J.M. Coetzee has produced a masterpiece which has the astonishing power to make the wilderness boom.

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