Awards

• Long-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)
• Winner of Booker Prize 1983 (UK)

Overview

Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia's brightest writing talents. There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving him to the mercy of roving armies in a South Africa gripped by war. Locked up, he escapes, determined to live life on his own terms. This compassionate and life-affirming novel speaks to the human need for connection-to each other and to the world-and an interior life.

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`So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one's eye has been sharpened, one's hearing vivified.' * New York Times Book Review * `A major work of crystalline intensity.' * Los Angeles Times * `An outstanding achievement.' * Nadine Gordimer *

‘An outstanding achievement.’ * Nadine Gordimer * ‘A major work of crystalline intensity.’ * Los Angeles Times * ‘So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one’s eye has been sharpened, one’s hearing vivified.’ * New York Times Book Review *

'An outstanding achievement.' * Nadine Gordimer * 'A major work of crystalline intensity.' * Los Angeles Times * 'So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one's eye has been sharpened, one's hearing vivified.' * New York Times Book Review *

Author Information

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg,Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.

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