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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Askew, C. C.
Coetzee, J. M.

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Series: Penguin Ink

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ISBN10: 0143116924
ISBN13: 9780143116929
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jun 29 2010
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims--until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee's third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an 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 elevate their own survival above justice and decency.

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