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Waiting for the barbarians

by J.M. Coetzee

3.7
(50 ratings)
165 pages1980Penguin BooksISBN 9780140061109
ClassicsWarDystopianFantasyFictionHistoryGeneralsouth africaFiction1980-lukumale author
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About this book

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. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books
Published
1980
Pages
165
ISBN
9780140061109
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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