La vita e il tempo di Michael K

**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.

**'This is a truly astonishing novel... I finished *Life & Times of Michael K *in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough'* Evening Standard***