Life & Times of Michael K, (Paperback)

from whitewavedarling

This is a quiet story, performing a character study from outside of Michael K. and following his wanderings. There's much to be said for the simplicity of Michael K. and for Coetzee's delicate writ...

from lauralkeet

Michael K was always a bit of an outcast. He was born with a hare lip, and sent to a sort of institution during his school-age years. His mother Anna worked as a domestic for a wealthy family, but ...

from Niecierpek

A compelling yet very disturbing read. Even though I finished it a while ago, I still feel unsettled by it. It's a story of Michael K, an inarticulate man with a harelip, `not entirely there' yet w...

from lukespapa

Michael K, as Coetzee details in this early novel, is "The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy". Born with a hare lip, Michael is a simple man and a gardener in Cape Town. After...

from poplin

Within a couple of pages, I suspected that the "K" in Michael K. was a reference to Kafka's The Trial, and upon investigation, I discovered that several critics and scholars have made the same obse...