Boyhood

<b>Fiercely revealing bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art. --<b>Michiko Kakutani <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>J.M. Coetzee's latest novel <i>The Schooldays of Jesus</i> is now available from Viking. <i>Late Essays: 2006-2016</i> will be available January 2018. </b> <p/>Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented he led a double life--the brilliant and well-behaved student at school the princely despot at home always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature the awakenings of sexual desire and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions; and only in his love of the high veld (farms are places of freedom of life) could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for but never could have expected.