Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

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

180 pages paperback 1980

44 editions

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

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