The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that until this week, I’d not read any of JM Coetzee’s work. Coetzee is not only a celebrated South African-born novelist, essayist, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, & the first author to win the prestigious Booker Prize twice, but he also relocated to Australia in 2002 & has been associated with the University of Adelaide ever since. And I didn’t bother reading…