Waiting For The Barbarians

Waiting For The Barbarians by J M Coetzee


ISBN
9780749394202
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state.

This is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.

Winner of the Booker Prize, the CNA Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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