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Synopsis

Reprinted.

Item Description

8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. [vi] + 249 + [1] pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has slightly sunned spine. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good copy. A work of fiction featuring the story of Michael K who travels from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace during a fictitious civil war set in the apartheid era. The fourth novel of 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature winning novelist, J. M. Coetzee (b.1940). South African born, he moved to Australia in 2002. Reprinted in 1983, the year of first publication.