'As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction-As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist-its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious' Irish Times
J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime and The Childhood of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
This life is described with such skill, such exactitude and such
relentlessness that I found myself gasping for air... Coetzee has
achieved something universal in his work...a fine book, probably
the best description of a childhood I have ever read
*The Times*
As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense
and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination
which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction... As austerely
beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist...its aloof,
edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both
truthful and mysterious
*Irish Times*
Boyhood is a deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South
African childhood: the narrative style is as spare and lean as the
Karoo flatlands which form its backdrop
*Daily Telegraph*
The economy with which Coetzee makes sense of his past is evidence,
once again, of his outstanding talent
*Independent on Sunday*
An uncannily accurate picture of the way things were in South
Africa
*Literary Review*
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