Youth

Informationen zum Autor J.M. Coetzee ’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians , Life & Times of Michael K , Boyhood , Youth , Disgrace , Summertime , The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus . He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Klappentext New novel in paperback from Coetzee, the only author ever to have won the Booker Prize twice. Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, this is an evocative portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself, and of a young man's struggle to find his way in the world. "Only a writer as great as Coetzee is capable of infusing meditation on the spoilt hope of youth with such clarity, fluency and poise" "Daily Mail". "Brilliant. A remarkable feat" "Sunday Times". Zusammenfassung Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art.

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Coetzee
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2003
• EAN: 9780099433620
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943362-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Südafrikanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, Narrative theme: Interior life, Republic of South Africa, c 1960 to c 1969, Biographical fiction