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)

"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 While it is always dangerous to push an as yet unpublished work, but in the case of Coetzee, this could be a book of the year, never mind an expected contender."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 written with the coolness and limpidity that makes Coetzee a master... There were moments were I found it almost too affecting to read." (David Sexton Evening Standard)

"[A] tenaciously absorbing sequel." (Duncan White Sunday Telegraph)

"[It is] surprisingly involving...richly suggestive." (Stephanie Cross Daily Mail)

An intriguing and wonderful novel from the Booker and Nobel-prize-winning author of Disgrace