Youth

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 170. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; grey endpapers.

The second volume in Coetzee's semi-fictional autobiography preceded by Boyhood (1997), and book-ended by Summertime (2009). An awkward colonial, and constitutional outsider, fetches up in 1960s London ready to transmute his cultural experiences into high art but ends up engaging in a series of loveless love affairs while subsisting on dead-end jobs. An unstinting portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself. Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive." –The Sunday Times