Life And Times Of Michael K.

Author: J.M. Coetzee

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ISBN : 9780099268345
Publisher : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.14
Publication date : 06 August 1998
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm X 13mm
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Author : J.M. Coetzee
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Description

First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.

Awards

Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1983.

Author description

J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life, Youth, and Disgrace, which won the Booker Prize, making him the first author to have won it twice. In 2003 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.