Book review: The Death Of Jesus, by JM Coetzee

JM Coetzee is an intriguing and acclaimed author, having won the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize, twice. I very much admired works such as Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times Of Michael K and Disgrace. But here’s the rub: I admired them but I never really enjoyed them. There is a frostiness to his work, an almost deliberate opacity. They hint at being profound, but are they?