Waiting for the Barbarians
of J.M. Coetzee
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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 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 oppressor and oppressed. 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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 152 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date October 1st 1999
- First Publication 12/28/80
- Language English
- ISBN 9780140283358
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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