It was for this novel that J.M. Coetzee was awarded his first Booker... for which he did not appear. Nobel laureate, perhaps the most mysterious, extravagant and unpredictable of all those awarded this main literary prize of the world. “The Life and Times of Michael K.” is a novel about an era in which “discord is the common father of all and the common king of all, and the same gods.” he declares, and others - people,” and about a person who is bypassed by God’s favor, but finds peace of mind in the turbulent world that surrounds him.