Life & Times of Michael K Academia It’s about ideas

It’s about ideas

a gift for storytelling and a great depth of compassion

and the London Observer

the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China

to falling in love

Life & Times of Michael K Academia It’s about ideasIn a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing 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. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experiencethe need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for