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Life & Times of Michael K

Life & Times of Michael K

Publisher Ravan Press

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    First South African Edition

    A near-fine first edition in the original binding. In a near-fine, unclipped dust jacket.

About the book

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.

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