Life and Times of Michael K

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Coetzee, Jean M. Coetzee
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9780099479154
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947915-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Republic of South Africa, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary