|
|
Product Description
From author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee.J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing 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. This life affirming novel goes to the center 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.
Features
- Penguin Books
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Foe
- Go, Went, Gone
- Antony and Cleopatra (The Pelican Shakespeare)
- Elizabeth Costello: Fiction
- Nervous Conditions [Import]
- Dubliners: Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- If They Come for Us: Poems
- Disgrace: A Novel
- Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
- White is for Witching
*If this is not the "Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Nov 20, 2024 03:19 +08.
