The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee he brings history to life

he brings history to life with cogent analyses of some of the greatest strategic issues of recent times and reveals how

is rich in revelations

Alongside brutal depictions of violence and justice are jokes and deceptively slight

The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man

he was also pathologically reticent

The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee he brings history to lifeAfter crossing oceans, a man and a boy arrive in a new land. Here they are each assigned a name and an age, and held in a camp in the desert while they learn Spanish, the language of their new country. As Simn and David they make their way to the relocation centre in the city of Novilla, where officialdom treats them politely but not necessarily helpfully. Simn finds a job in a grain wharf. The work is unfamiliar and backbreaking, but he soon warms to