''The Death of Jesus'' is a 2019 novel by
J.M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and de ...
; it is the third in his "Jesus" trilogy, following ''
The Childhood of Jesus
''The Childhood of Jesus'' is a 2013 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. The book was published simultaneously on 7 March 2013, by Jonathan Cape (UK) and Text Publishing (Australia). The U.S. edition was published on 3 Septe ...
'' (2013) and ''
The Schooldays of Jesus'' (2016). It was first published in Spanish under the title ''La muerte de Jesús'' and distributed throughout Latin America. It is the second of Coetzee's books to appear first in Spanish, the first being ''Siete cuentos morales'' or "Moral Tales."
Prior to its publication, ''The Death of Jesus'' was cited in media across the world as one of the most anticipated novels of 2020 in the English-speaking world.
According to review aggregator
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, the novel received positive critical response based on 24 reviews.
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The Guardian
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References
2019 novels
21st-century South African novels
Novels by J. M. Coetzee
Spanish-language novels
Text Publishing books
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