Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

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

180 pages first pub 1980 (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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