Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
Added by: KundAlini | Karma: 1594.10 | Fiction literature | 29 August 2013
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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
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."
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