{"product_id":"esperando-a-los-barbaros-waiting-for-the-barbarians","title":"Esperando a los bárbaros \/ Waiting For the Barbarians","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsperando a los b\u0026amp;aacute;rbaros\u003c\/i\u003e es una novela de clara intenci\u0026amp;oacute;n moral: una par\u0026amp;aacute;bola de una Sud\u0026amp;aacute;frica desquiciada por el racismo, una denuncia de la brutalidad y de la arrogante ignorancia del poder. Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUn d\u0026amp;iacute;a el Imperio decidi\u0026amp;oacute; que los b\u0026amp;aacute;rbaros eran una amenaza para su integridad. Primero llegaron al pueblo fronterizo polic\u0026amp;iacute;as, que detuvieron sobre todo a quienes no eran b\u0026amp;aacute;rbaros pero s\u0026amp;iacute; diferentes. Torturaron y asesinaron. Despu\u0026amp;eacute;s llegaron los militares. Muchos. Preparados para realizar heroicas campa\u0026amp;ntilde;as militares.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEl viejo magistrado del lugar trat\u0026amp;oacute; de hacerles ver con sensatez que los b\u0026amp;aacute;rbaros hab\u0026amp;iacute;an estado desde siempre all\u0026amp;iacute; y nunca hab\u0026amp;iacute;an sido un peligro, que eran n\u0026amp;oacute;madas y no se les pod\u0026amp;iacute;a vencer en batallas campales, que las opiniones que ten\u0026amp;iacute;an sobre ellos eran absurdas... Vano intento. El magistrado solo logr\u0026amp;oacute; la prisi\u0026amp;oacute;n y el pueblo, que hab\u0026amp;iacute;a aclamado a los militares cuando llegaron, su ruina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49741503824099,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788497593359","price":105.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/4577bbb6e3dc-9788497593359.jpg?v=1789607908","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/esperando-a-los-barbaros-waiting-for-the-barbarians","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}