Before I Began
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The Death of Jesus
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill Secker, 208 pp., £18.99, January,978 1 78730 211 2 Show More
by J.M. Coetzee.
Harvill Secker, 208 pp., £18.99, January,
“... now.’ What would our lives be like under these conditions?For the best part of a decade, J.M. Coetzee has been exploring this question in a series of novels named for stages in the life of Jesus: The Childhood of Jesus (2013), The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) and now The Death of Jesus. That the novels don’t mention Jesus, and allude to stories from the ... ”