{"product_id":"boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","title":"Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life","description":"Coetzee has been reluctant to talk about himself. Now, revisiting the South Africa of a half century ago, he writes about his childhood and his own interior life. \"Boyhood\" 's young narrator grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he did not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life -- at school the brilliant and well-behaved student, at home the princely despot, 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 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.","brand":"J M Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47273393619180,"sku":"9780140265668","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780140265668.jpg?v=1770124906","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}