Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee with C. C. Askew (Illustrator)

180 pages 1980

44 editions

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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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...

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