Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
3.94
· 39 ratings · 162 pages · Published: 26 Dec 1980
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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