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Everything I read from Coetzee has a profound impact on me. His words are so cutting, direct, affective, sincere, clear and concise. His ability to draw me in, paint a picture and transport me to wherever and whatever he is writing about astounds me. This is an autobiographical work with Coetzee himself as the narrator, referring to himself in the book as "he". I really like this approach because he is telling the reader about his life and the experiences that formed the man that he is today but as an observer, almost as if he is observing himself.

This is a short, easy read but still fantastically beautiful. "Boyhood" is a clear account of his life as an exceptionally intelligent boy growing up in South Africa in the 1950s. It is a bold, compelling, funny, raw account of a boy's life who is tormented by guilt, fear and confusion. How he feels as a boy and his observances of the world around him remind me of what it was like to look at the world through child's eyes and know that everything was not the way that it was supposed to be and to wonder how it would all turn out one day.