num_pages: 192
description: 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.
language: English
title: Life & Times of Michael K
titlecomplete: Life & Times of Michael K
characters: Michael K
genres: 20th Century, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, War, Fiction, African Literature
ratings_count: 18667
places: South Africa, Capetown, Prince Albert
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία
publisher: Vintage