**After _The Childhood of Jesus_ and _The Schooldays of Jesus_ , the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, *The Death of Jesus*** In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his f
The Death of Jesus
β Scribed by J. M. Coetzee
- Book ID
- 110533442
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 380 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus , J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus.
David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father SimΓ³n and BolΓvar the dog usually watch. His mother InΓ©s works in a fashion boutique.
David still asks lots of questions. In dancing class at the Academy of Music he dances as he chooses. He refuses to do sums and will not read any books except Don Quixote.
One day Julio Fabricante, the director of a nearby orphanage, invites David and his friends to form a proper soccer team. David decides he will leave SimΓ³n and InΓ©s to live with Julio. Before long he succumbs to a mysterious illness.
In The Death of Jesus , J. M. Coetzee continues to explore the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions.
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