Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Waiting for the Barbarians
Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

A Novel

J. M. Coetzee (Author) ... more
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Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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English
192 pages • 12.85 x 19.66 x 1.17 cm
Approx. weight: 0.16 kg
Publication date: 29 Apr,1982
Barcode/ ISBN: 9780140061109 • Vintage / Penguin Books
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Fiction: Modern and contemporary

Description

By: J. M. Coetzee     
NOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee.

For 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.

Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. 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.

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