Waiting for the barbarians  -  J.m. Coetzee

KORTE INHOUD

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. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison as an enemy of the state.

J.M. Coetzee's second prize-winning novel is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote ti...
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1982 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Penguin 156 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140065555 ISBN-13: 9780140065558