{"product_id":"childhood-of-jesus","title":"The Childhood of Jesus","description":"\u003ci\u003e'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me-please\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003etake it on faith-this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ecannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003esay Yes, without forethought, without afterthought, all will become clear to you, as clear as day,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eor so I believe. Therefore- will you accept this child as yours?'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Sim n takes it upon himself to look after the boy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sim n'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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Childhood of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Childhood of Jesus","offer_id":46288600268997,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-922182-26-5.jpg?v=1780031640","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/childhood-of-jesus","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}