Youth

<b><b>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></b> <p/>The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized memoir explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of <i>Youth</i> has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother a father whose failures haunt him and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s however he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. <i>Youth</i> is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness isolated and adrift turning in on itself of a young man struggling to find his way in the world written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.