The Death of Jesus
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Jan '21
Should be back in stock very soon
The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', double Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee.
'Full of truth, tearfully moving to read... Brilliant' Evening Standard
Simón and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named Inés. The small family have found a home in which David can thrive.
But David is spotted by Julio Fabricante, the director of a local orphanage, playing football with his friends. He shows unusual talent. When David announces that he wants to live with Julio and the children in his care, Simón and Inés are stunned. David is leaving them, and they can only love him and bear witness.
The Death of Jesus is the completion of an incomparable trilogy in which J. M. Coetzee explores the meaning of a world empty of memory but brimming with questions.
* A New York Times Notable Book *
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'Extraordinary... Coetzee stands as the pre-eminent novelist in the English-writing world' New Statesman
'You will read its cool, dry final sentences - as I did - with tears in your eyes' The Times
Anything J.M. Coetzee writes deserves our full attention…The Death of Jesus is full of truth, irreducible, tearfully moving to read -- David Sexton * Evening Standard, *Book of the Week* *
Concludes the trilogy with force and heart… if The Death of Jesus strikes you in the right place, then you will read its cool, dry final sentences – as I did – with tears in your eyes -- John Self * The Times *
Any new novel from Coetzee commands respect, and the final part of the trilogy is no exception… The Death of Jesus constantly challenges what we believe and why -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday *
The Death of Jesus is a necessary read, casting a strange new light on one of the world’s greatest and most elusive novelists -- Doug Battersby * Financial Times *
A phenomenon that arrives from out of nowhere and challenges our received ideas to breaking point ... a delicate, iridescent mystery * Guardian *
A formidably intelligent writer who synthesizes millennia of thought into intricate multilayered narratives -- Claire Lowdon * Times Literary Supplement *
An extraordinary new novel… The Death of Jesus is the best in the series -- Leo Robson * New Statesman *
Coetzee always writes with pace and precision. His otherworldly landscapes have a gritty, scuffed plausibility. Never overlook the deadpan comedy, either: he learned from Samuel Beckett, an early idol -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *
A remarkable achievement by a writer whose evolution, at the age of 79, continues to surprise * Economist *
The enigmatic final instalment of Coetzee's trilogy of novels...is a triumph: subtle, philosophical and playful * Daily Telegraph *
ISBN: 9781529112566
Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 14mm
Weight: 170g
208 pages