Waiting For The Barbarians Paperback / softback
by J.M. Coetzee
Paperback / softback
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The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M.
Coetzee – soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor 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 with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state.
Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed.
Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:02/09/2004
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- ISBN:9780099465935
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:02/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099465935