Share
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin ink Series)
J. M. Coetzee
(Author)
·
C. C. Askew
(Illustrated by)
·
Penguin Books
· Paperback
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin ink Series) - Coetzee, J. M. ; Askew, C. C.
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My Wishlists
Origin: U.S.A.
(Import costs included in the price)
It will be shipped from our warehouse between
Monday, May 27 and
Friday, June 07.
You will receive it anywhere in United Kingdom between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin ink Series)"
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, now a major motion picture starring Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himself jolted into sympathy with their victims--until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee's third novel, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize, is an 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 elevate their own survival above justice and decency.
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
All books in our catalog are Original.
The book is written in English.
The binding of this edition is Paperback.
✓ Producto agregado correctamente al carro, Ir a Pagar.
