Boyhood

By J. M. Coetzee

Subjects: South African Authors, South africa, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Biography, Dorf, Autobiographical fiction, England, fiction, Außenseiter, Coetzee, j. m., 1940-, Authors, biography, Apartheid, Authors, fiction, Junge, South African Novelists, South Africans, Authors, south african, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Belletristische Darstellung, Fiction, biographical, Authors, Young men

Description: In these fictionalised memoirs using third-person narration, Coetzee examines his childhood within the sphere of his parents' unhappy marriage, his desire for his mother and for independence from her, and his feelings towards a multi-racial South African society.