The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee - 2013

Text Publishing , Melbourne, VIC, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. `Please believe me-please take it on faith-this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without forethought, without afterthought, all will become clear to you, as clear as day, or so I believe. Therefore: will you accept this child as yours?'David is a small boy who comes by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a stranger named Simon takes it upon himself to look after the boy.On arrival they are assigned new names, new birthdates. They know little Spanish, the language of their new country, and nothing about its customs. They have also… Read More