J. M. Coetzee
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Nobel laureate and two-time Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee returns with a haunting and surprising novel about childhood and destiny that is sure to rank with his classic novels. Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining his situation is lost, but a fellow passenger, Simón, vows to look after the boy. When the boat docks, David and Simón...
Author
Series
Memoir trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 3
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
David enrolls in the Academy of Dance in Estrella, where he learns about the mystical qualities of the stars and makes troubling discoveries about the capabilities of grownups.
Author
Publisher
Viking, and imprint of Penguin Radom House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The Good Story" is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J.M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stories. Working alone, the writer is in sole charge of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"David ha cumplido diez años y todas las semanas juega al fútbol con sus amigos. No tienen equipos ni tampoco reglas; a veces son treinta en la cancha, otras veces solo cinco. Un día el director de un orfanato vecino los invita a organizarse para jugar contra los internados. Tal vez disfruten de medirse con un equipo de verdad. Al hacer el máximo esfuerzo y darlo todo para ganar. Pero David elige dejar su hogar e irse a vivir con ellos. Y, al...