Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Author: Coetzee, J. M.

Brand: Random House Books for Young Readers

Color: Tan

Edition: New

Features:

• ISBN13: 9780140061109
• Condition: New
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Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 192

Release Date: 29-04-1982

Part Number: 014006110X

Details: A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

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.
Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.

EAN: 9780140061109

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English