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Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

Coetzee, J. M.

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General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 014006110X
ISBN13: 9780140061109
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Apr 29 1982
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee--a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.

NOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON

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.

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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