"Life & Times of Michael K" by J. M. Coetzee was first published in 1983. The book was the winner of the Booker Prize in the year of its publication. <br /> <br />The story revolves around a man named Michael K. During an imaginary civil was in the 1970s and 1980s, in South Africa, he makes a very difficult journey from Cape Town to his mother's native village.
