{"product_id":"2026200015803-secondhand-life-times-of-michael-k","title":"Life \u0026 Times Of Michael K","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u0026amp; 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.\n\nAt 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203248660699,"sku":"2026200015803-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/57d66809-096d-4f20-b71e-c861d5a15dcb.png?v=1788146378","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015803-secondhand-life-times-of-michael-k","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}