(Post incl) Life & Times of MIchael K by J M Coetzee

Ravan Press 1963  ISBN: 086975159X First Edition

J M Coetzee; Twice Booker Prize winner, Nobel Prize winner.

Book has a gift inscription on first flyleaf. On same page there are some pen blotch lines. Front and back flyleaves, the half-title page and the title page have brown blotchs / foxing and there are the odd fox marks appearing internally, but generally the pages are clean and crisp. Binding very good.

DJ in very good condition - has some minor bumping to the edges. Has no fading. The underside of the jacket does have foxing and does show on the very edges of the flap-over. 

"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 countryside... 

The story of Michael K is the story of a man caught up in a war beyond his understanding, but determined to live his life, however minimally, on his own terms..."