About the book: 2017 / The School Days of Jesus is about the boy David getting ready for school. He learns to communicate with other people, looking for his place in this world. The writer shows the problems of growing up: what does it mean to be human, what do you need to protect yourself from, what is more important - the mind or feelings? But Coetzee’s novel is not a textbook on education - it encrypts the whole world in simple everyday situations. A world in which a savior must appear. It's just who or what you need to save yourself from?