Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
Book Details
Author(s)
J. M. Coetzee
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN
0140283358
ISBN-13
9780140283358
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Sales Rank
#560,953
Marketplace
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Description
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians."
