Schooldays of Jesus

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new life. That is how it is. There is no before. There is no history. The boat docks at the harbour and we climb down the gangplank and we are plunged into the here and now. Time begins.Dav d is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and In s take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make fri ...