LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K. by Coetzee, J. M - 1983

Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy with a tiny bump to both bottom corners, bookseller label to bottom of front pastedown, in a near fine jacket with a tiny scrape to jacket spine and with a few wrinkles to the lamination. Winner of the Booker Prize. Printed and bound in the UK for Ravan Press. In a South Africa whose civil administration is collapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes, however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors.