COETZEE, John M.

Waiting for the barbarians

An official of a powerful empire gradually becomes aware that he might not be living in the most just of worlds. Because yes, that empire prides itself, like all others, on being the pinnacle of...

The Death of Jesus

Coetzee finishes with this third story of the boy David after his extensive parable of the two previous installments: “The Childhood of Jesus” (2013), and “The Schooldays of Jesus (2017). All the...