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The Childhood of Jesus is a 2013 novel by South African-born Australian Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. [1] Synopsis. The book follows a man and a boy who immigrate to a new land. Once there, they receive new names and rough estimates of their age and are taught Spanish to help them acclimatise to their new surroundings.
- J. M. Coetzee
- 2013
7 de mar. de 2013 · After crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country.
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In The Childhood of Jesus, Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker Prize–winning J. M. Coetzee returns to the allegorical style of his acclaimed 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. A middle-aged man named Simón and a six-year-old boy named David arrive at the town of Novilla in an unspecified, Spanish-speaking country.
- Paperback
29 de ago. de 2013 · But where those books evoke Coetzee’s native South Africa and the madness of apartheid, immersing the reader in situations of nearly unbearable intensity, “The Childhood of Jesus” is set in a...
29 de ago. de 2013 · In J. M. Coetzee’s new novel, “The Childhood of Jesus,” a man and a boy make sense of their odd surroundings.
3 de sept. de 2013 · From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace, The Childhood of Jesus is the first book in his haunting trilogy that ends with The Death of Jesus (forthcoming from Viking) Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace, The Childhood of Jesus is the first book in his haunting trilogy that ends with The Death of Jesus (forthcoming from Viking) Separated from his...
