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Life & times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee

Label
Life & times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Life & times of Michael K
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Oclc number
973925846
Responsibility statement
J.M. Coetzee
Summary
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his 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. Life and Times of Michael K 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
Target audience
juvenile
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Life and times of Michael K
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