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Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

Coetzee, J.M.;

Waiting for the Barbarians

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1980 / Penguin 1982

ISBN 014006110X

topics: |  fiction | south-africa | nobel-2003


A magistrate in a country village protests the army's treatment of members of
the barbarian tribes taken prisoner during a civil war and finds himself
arrested as a traitor


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Feb 2009