ISBN: 9781925355789 - The Schooldays of Jesus (2 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 274 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 274 pages. David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simón and Inés take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to m ake friends. He has the big dog Bolívar to watch over him. But he?ll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance in Estrella. It?s here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it?s here too that he will make tr oubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. The Schoolday s of Jesus, the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee?s widely praised The Childhood of Jesus, will beguile its readers. With the mysterious simplicity of a fable, it tells a story that raises the most direct questions about life i tself.…