The Schooldays of Jesus by Jm Coetzee
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily TelegraphWhen you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.
"Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths" * Observer *
"Brilliant..tenaciously absorbing" * Daily Telegraph *
"It is written with the coolness and limpidity that makes Coetzee a master... There were moments where I found it almost too affecting to read" -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *
"It’s compulsively enigmatic but surprisingly funny too." * Metro *
"Coetzee doesn't want to be understood, or explained. He wants, merely, to be read. The Schooldays of Jesus is, indeed, very readable" * The Times *
"Brilliant..tenaciously absorbing" * Daily Telegraph *
"It is written with the coolness and limpidity that makes Coetzee a master... There were moments where I found it almost too affecting to read" -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *
"It’s compulsively enigmatic but surprisingly funny too." * Metro *
"Coetzee doesn't want to be understood, or explained. He wants, merely, to be read. The Schooldays of Jesus is, indeed, very readable" * The Times *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911215356 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911215353 |
| Title | The Schooldays of Jesus |
| Author | Jm Coetzee |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2016-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK) |
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