num_pages: 166
description: The critically acclaimed author of In the Heart of the Country tells his personal story of growing up under apartheid in South Africa with a father he cannot respect and a mother he both adores and despises. 12,500 first printing.
language: English
title: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
titlecomplete: Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
characters: John Coetzee
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, 20th Century, South Africa, Coming Of Age, Nobel Prize, Africa, Biography Memoir, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 5308
places: South Africa, Cape Town, Worcester
series: Scenes from Provincial Life
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Viking