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20 45 y separately published work icon The Childhood of Jesus J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Barbora Daxner with title Jezišovo detstvo ) Bratislava : Citadell , 2014 Z1908494 2013 single work novel (taught in 2 units) ''The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without forethought, without afterthought, all will become clear to you, as clear as day, or so I believe. Therefore: will you accept this child as yours?'

David is a small boy who comes by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a stranger named Simón takes it upon himself to look after the boy.

On arrival they are assigned new names, new birthdates. They know little Spanish, the language of their new country, and nothing about its customs. They have also suffered a kind of forgetting of old attachments and feelings. They are people without a past.

Simón's goal is to find the boy's mother. He feels sure he will know her when he sees her. And David? He wants to find his mother too but he also wants to understand where he is and how he fits in. He is a boy who is always asking questions.

The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider. It is a novel about the riddle of experience itself.' (Publisher's blurb)
11 1 y separately published work icon The Calusari : A Novelization Garth Nix , ( trans. Ann Margret Forsstrom with title Mörkrets barn ) Stockholm : Citadell , 1997 Z834598 1997 single work novel young adult First Charlie's little brother is killed by an oncoming train. Then his father dies in a bizarre accident. Both times, Charlie is present - watching. Is it just an eerie coincidence? Mulder and Scully don't think so. Neither does Charlie's grandmother. Believing that Charlie caused the horrors, she calls in the Calusari to cleanse his soul. But is Charlie truly evil? Or is there an even darker force at hand?
(Source: Goodreads website)
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