The Schooldays of Jesus von J. M. Coetzee

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 272 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Verlag: Random House UKVintage
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9781784705343

Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depthsObserverAn intriguing and wonderful novel from the Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author of Disgrace.

From the double Booker Prize-winning author ofDisgrace, an astonishing novel of new beginnings and the troubles of youth.<br><br>'Brilliant... Tenaciously absorbing'Daily Telegraph<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>The Schooldays of Jesusis a mesmerising tale about growing up, and about the choices we are forced to make in our lives.<br><br>'Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths'Observer<br><br>Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2016

1GBNominiert: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2016J.M. Coetzee's work includesWaiting for the Barbarians,Life&Times of Michael K,Boyhood,Youth,Disgrace,Summertime,The Childhood of Jesusand, 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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