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    "annotation": "<P>\nDav\u00edd is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim\u00f3n and In\u00e9s take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bol\u00edvar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, Dav\u00edd is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of.\n\nIn this mesmerising allegorical tale, Coetzee deftly grapples with the big questions of growing up, of what it means to be a parent, the constant battle between intellect and emotion, and how we choose to live our lives.</P>",
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