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The Schooldays of Jesus
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From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth.’Brilliant… Tenaciously absorbing’ Daily TelegraphDavid is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends and he has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him.But he’ll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It’s here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. Yet it’s here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what adults are capable of.The Schooldays of Jesus is a mesmerising tale about growing up, and about the choices we are forced to make in our lives.’Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths’ ObserverLonglisted for the Booker Prize 2016
Additional information
| Weight | 0.168 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.7 × 11 × 17.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 272 |
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| Year Published | 2017-9-21 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784705349 |
| About The Author | J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. |
| Review Quote | Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths |
| Other text | Brilliant…tenaciously absorbing |
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