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The Schooldays of Jesus

✍ Scribed by J. M. Coetzee

Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 139 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins.

David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him. But he’ll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance in Estrella. It’s here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it’s here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of.

The Schooldays of Jesus , the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee’s widely praised The Childhood of Jesus , will beguile its readers. With the...

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