In this mesmerising allegorical tale,&nbsp;J.M. Coetzee&nbsp;deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, and what&nbsp;it means to be a ‘parent’.&nbsp;This new novel, "The Schooldays of Jesus," is a direct sequel to the first book, "The Childhood of Jesus."Simón and Inés take care of David, a small boy who is always asking questions. But he is nearly seven, he should be at school. So David 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."&nbsp;In typical Coetzian-fashion The Schooldays of Jesus is driven by the power of ideas rather than the plot itself. An exploration of the nature of the world and of human nature, the novel pits passion against reason and fantasy against reality."&nbsp;&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;Zeynep Sen, The Turkish VoiceJohn Maxwell Coetzee&nbsp;is an author and academic from South Africa. He became an Australian citizen in 2006 after relocating there in 2002. A novelist and literary critic as well as a translator, Coetzee has won the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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