Scenes from Provincial Life - J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell at his best, all three autobiographical novels, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime, in one book. The making of a writer with the tragedy of an Anglo-Afrikaner soul in the South Africa of the appartheid. The portrait we contemplate is that of a rather gloomy, tormented, gifted, lonely "he" who happens to have many things in common with the author.