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Waiting for the Barbarians
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Series: Penguin Ink
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ISBN10: 1613834691
ISBN13: 9781613834695
Publisher: Perfection Learning Corp
Published: Jun 29 2010
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781613834695
Publisher: Perfection Learning Corp
Published: Jun 29 2010
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the barbarians. After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.
Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the barbarians. After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.
The Good Storyby J.M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz is coming from Viking Books onSeptember 29, 2015
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