The Schooldays of Jesus

Compelling, often very funny, full of sudden depths * Observer *
Brilliant...tenaciously absorbing * Daily Telegraph *
It is written with the coolness and limpidity that makes Coetzee a master... There were moments where I found it almost too affecting to read -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *
It’s compulsively enigmatic but surprisingly funny too. * Metro *
Coetzee doesn't want to be understood, or explained. He wants, merely, to be read. The Schooldays of Jesus is, indeed, very readable * The Times *
The book’s interest comes almost entirely from its strangeness – its world continues to be charmingly, earnestly weird. -- Roger Bellin * Literary Review *
He is a proven master with an increasingly wilful streak, always a writer to excite, while for a reader with a fondness for backing a good horse, here it is. While it is always dangerous to push an as yet unpublished work, but in the case of Coetzee, this could be a book of the year, never mind an expected contender. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
[It is] surprisingly involving...richly suggestive. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *
Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions. * The Economist *
[A] tenaciously absorbing sequel. -- Duncan White * Sunday Telegraph *