{"product_id":"boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","title":"Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoetzee 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoyhood\u003c\/em\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44906489479237,"sku":"BS-LIB-265668","price":24.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2482\/2494\/files\/9780140265668-HD.jpg?v=1776888365","url":"https:\/\/libros787.com\/en\/products\/boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","provider":"Libros787.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}