Life & Times of Michael K
A Cape Town parks gardener born with a hare lip and no gift for talk decides to take his sick mother back to the Karoo farm she came from, and when the permit never arrives he wheels her out of the city in a barrow through a country of roadblocks and curfews. Alone on an abandoned holding he clears a patch, plants pumpkins and melons, and reduces himself to almost nothing rather than be fed by anyone. Booker winner, and the book that fixed Coetzee's standing outside South Africa.
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