Schooldays of Jesus

The Schooldays of Jesus is a novel by JM Coetzee that follows a young boy named David as he enrolls in the Academy of Dance, where he learns to call down numbers from the sky and makes troubling discoveries about what adults are capable of. It is a mesmerising tale about growing up and the choices we are forced to make in our lives.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 272 pages
\n Publication date: 07 January 2021
\n Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 Telegraph. David 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, Observer. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2016.

\n Weight: 214g\n
Dimension: 128 x 197 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781529112689\n \n