London: Harvill Secker, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. A most attractive first impression of the first edition, full leather in black cloth slipcase, limited to 100 copies. This is #53; unread. SIGNED by author. The Childhood of Jesus, from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee, is a fantastic contemporary allegory about two immigrants, a boy and his new guardian, who arrive in a strange land without knowledge of the language or customs, and initiate a search of the boy’s mother. South African author J.M. Coetzee - novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator – has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina Étranger, and the Booker Prize (twice), among many other accolades.