Life & Times Of Michael K
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary odyssey — pushing his ailing mother across a ravaged landscape in a homemade wheelbarrow, seeking a return to the earth and a life free from the machinery of history. J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Life & Times of Michael K chronicles this haunting journey with spare, surgical prose, presenting a portrait of survival, silence, and the indomitable human need to exist outside the boundaries others impose. At its core, this is a novel about freedom — not the grand political kind, but the stubborn, almost wordless freedom of a man who refuses to be categorised, imprisoned, or consumed by any system, whether the state's or another person's love. Coetzee writes with the cool precision of a moral philosopher and the imagery of a poet, constructing a parable that resonates as powerfully with Kafka as it does with the specific horror of apartheid-era South Africa. Winner of the 1983 Booker Prize, Life & Times of Michael K stands as one of the towering achievements of late 20th-century literature — and leaves the reader asking whose story, exactly, they have just witnessed.
Author: J. M. Coetzee
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In a South Africa torn apart by civil war and authoritarian collapse, a quiet, disfigured man named Michael K sets out on an extraordinary odyssey — pushing his ailing mother across a ravaged landscape in a homemade wheelbarrow, seeking a return to the earth and a life free from the machinery of history. J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Life & Times of Michael K chronicles this haunting journey with spare, surgical prose, presenting a portrait of survival, silence, and the indomitable human need to exist outside the boundaries others impose. At its core, this is a novel about freedom — not the grand political kind, but the stubborn, almost wordless freedom of a man who refuses to be categorised, imprisoned, or consumed by any system, whether the state's or another person's love. Coetzee writes with the cool precision of a moral philosopher and the imagery of a poet, constructing a parable that resonates as powerfully with Kafka as it does with the specific horror of apartheid-era South Africa. Winner of the 1983 Booker Prize, Life & Times of Michael K stands as one of the towering achievements of late 20th-century literature — and leaves the reader asking whose story, exactly, they have just witnessed.