The Childhood of Jesus

<p><b>From the double Booker Prize-winning author of <i>Disgrace</i> 'a moving story of lost childhood' (<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>).</b><br><br>After crossing oceans a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new land. David the boy has lost his mother and Sim&#243;n vows to look after him. In this strange country they are each assigned a new name a new birthday a new life.<br><br>Knowing nothing of their surroundings nor the language or customs they are determined to find David's mother. Though the boy has no memory of her Sim&#243;n is certain he will recognise her at first sight. 'But after we find her' David asks 'what are we here for?'<br><br><i>The Childhood of Jesus</i> is a profound beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.<br><br><b>'Powerful and poetic... This book will continue to act silently and unexpectedly on the reader's imagination' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>