by J.M. Coetzee · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439727279
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In 'The Childhood of Jesus,' J.M. Coetzee presents a moving story about identity, friendship, and family ties. After crossing the ocean, a man and a boy arrive in a new country where they are assigned a name and age, urging them to forget their past. In this strange land, they learn Spanish while waiting to be transferred to Novilla, hoping to find the boy's mother. Simón and David, with their new identities, face bureaucracy and the search for a home, while Simón finds work in the port. Despite the strangeness of the place, Simón persists in his mission to find the boy's mother, defying the collective amnesia that seems to affect all newcomers.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee 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.
