Death of Jesus
4.5
(2 ratings)208 pages2020Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781787302112
About this book
David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. David still asks lots of questions. One day Julio Fabricante, the director of a nearby orphanage, invites David and his friends to form a proper soccer team. David decides he will leave his parents to live with Julio. Before long he succumbs to a mysterious illness. J.M. Coetzee continues to explore the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions in this final book in the trilogy following "The Childhood of Jesus" and "The Schooldays of Jesus."
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781787302112
About J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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