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  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513792
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 17 min
  • Narrator: Jack Klaff
  • RRP: $19.99

Life and Times of Michael K




WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003

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.

  • Published: 13 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473513792
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 7 hr 17 min
  • Narrator: Jack Klaff
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

J. M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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Praise for Life and Times of Michael K

A strong and memorable novel

Guardian

It strikes deep inside the heart...The story is clean, clear, straight, the work of a mature imagination at full power...here is a book that will be celebrated for a long time

Mail on Sunday

This is a trule astonishing novel... I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough

Evening Standard

Beautifully written in a strong, plain, unpretentious style...distinguished by grim humour and powerful understatement

Sunday Express

The quality of Coetzee's writing lies in his inner vision: dark, passionately compassionate, concerned with the nature of man

Financial Times
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