Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee (Book Analysis‪)‬

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee, which tells the story of the titular protagonist’s journey to the farm where his mother grew up. Although his mother dies on the way, Michael continues to the farm alone, where he takes refuge from the civil war raging throughout the country, before being sent to and then escaping from an internment camp as a punishment for allegedly helping the rebels. Life and Times of Michael K won the Man Booker Prize in 1983; Coetzee later became the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice, with his novel Disgrace in 1999. 

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