Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
ISBN-13:
9780140061109
ISBN-10:
014006110X
Edition:
Revised ed.
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publication date:
1982
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780140061109
ISBN-10:
014006110X
Edition:
Revised ed.
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publication date:
1982
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Summary
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780140061109 and ISBN-10: 014006110X), written by authors
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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.
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.
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