b-Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.- --bMichiko Kakutani, iThe New York Timesib brJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, iThe Schooldays of Jesusi, is now available from Viking. iLate Essays 2006-2016i will be available January 2018. b brCoetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life--the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, 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 high veld -farms are places of freedom, of life- could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been