Waiting for the Barbarians
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(10 ratings)168 pages1980Penguin GroupISBN 9780140283358
Colonial administrators -- Fiction.Africa -- Fiction.
About this book
A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself arrested as a traitor.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN
- 9780140283358
- Language
- en
About J. M. Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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