num_pages: 249
description: First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.
language: English
title: Life & times of Michael K
titlecomplete: Life & times of Michael K
characters: Michael K
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, South Africa, 20th Century, War, Novels, African Literature, Nobel Prize, Classics
ratings_count: 18674
places: Prince Albert, South Africa, Capetown
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Prix Femina
category: Étranger, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ
category: Αγγλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία
publisher: Ravan Press