Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)
ISBN-13:
9780143116929
ISBN-10:
0143116924
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780143116929
ISBN-10:
0143116924
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
J. M. Coetzee
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
192 pages
Summary
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series) (ISBN-13: 9780143116929 and ISBN-10: 0143116924), 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.
Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience 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." After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.
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.
Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience 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." After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.
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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