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Youth |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.31 x 7.71in | 176 pages | ISBN 9780142002001 | 07 Oct 2003 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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View our feature on J.M. Coetzee's
Youth.
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 Youth 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. Youth 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.
"A delight to read: it will make you angry, amused, scornful and sympathetic by turns." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Coetzee makes a book of melancholy beauty and quiet force." (Vince Passaro, O Magazine)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Winner 2003
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