J. M. Coetzee, 1983. A cleft-lipped gardener walking out of war-torn South Africa. Booker Prize.
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Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-Australian J. M. Coetzee. The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace, amid a fictitious civil war during the apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.