Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

7 hours, 46 minutes first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging dark reflective slow-paced
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For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel an...

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