Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Waiting for the Barbarians Moving and powerful, this book presents the dark tale of an aging magistrate in an African frontier settlement, who finds himself becoming increasingly sympathetic toward the indigenous "barbarians" that the colonial empire's forces brutalize.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
- Published: 31 May 1990
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780140061109 ISBN 10: 014006110X
- Sales rank: 120,201
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Full description for Waiting for the Barbarians
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 and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
