Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)

Type

Book

Authors

J. M. Coetzee

ISBN 10

0143116924

ISBN 13

9780143116929

Tags

African, Australia & Oceania, Literary

Description

J.M. Coetzee's latest book co-written with Arabella Kurtz, The Good Story, is now available from Viking BooksA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. CoetzeeWaiting 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. - from Amzon

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