ISBN |
9781925773873 (paperback) |
Name |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
Title |
Life & times of Michael K / J.M. Coetzee ; introduced by Stephanie Bishop. |
Published |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019. |
©1983 |
Description |
xiv, 224 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Introduction "Time flowing slowly like oil" by Stephanie Bishop. |
First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1983. |
Summary |
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving him to the mercy of roving armies in a South Africa gripped by war. Locked up, he escapes, determined to live life on his own terms. This compassionate and life-affirming novel speaks to the human need for connection to each other and to the world and an interior life. |
Subjects |
Gardeners -- Fiction |
Insurgency -- South Africa -- Fiction |
Mothers -- Death -- Fiction |
South Africa -- Fiction |
Genre |
Psychological fiction |
Other Names |
Bishop, Stephanie, 1979- author of introduction, etc. |
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