Schooldays of Jesus
- author
- J. M. Coetzee
- Narrator
- James Cameron Stewart
- Series
- JesusPart 2
- Length
- 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 21444
- Categories
- Contemporary Fiction
- Reviews
- 0 star rating
When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins. Davìd 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. He has the big dog Bolìvar to watch over him.
But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, Davìd 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. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of.
Book 2 in the Jesus series.
