Life and Times of Michael K av J.M. Coetzee

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<p><b>In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home.</b> 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. <i>Life and Times of Michael K </i>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.<br><br><b>''This is a truly astonishing novel... I finished <i>Life & Times of Michael K </i>in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough''<i> Evening Standard</i></b></p>