Life & Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: South Africa Spiritual Life

Written by J. M. Coetzee
Read by Jack Klaff
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
Release date: 01-12-15
Publisher: AudioGo Ltd. Published by Random House Audiobooks

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his 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.

Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.

“From the first page we are told that K has a cleft lip which is an ever-present deformity and it plays into how other characters perceive him. Reading it I would often forget about that, but when Jack Klaff read Micahel K’s lines he would have a lisp/deformed speech which would be a constant reminder of how Michael K would be in conversation and how others would hear/perceive him.”