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  Waiting for the Barbarians (Vintage books) (Paperback) By (author) J. M. Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for Waiting for the BarbariansFor 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.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 02 September 2004
  • Format: Paperback 176 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099465935 ISBN 10: 0099465930
  • Sales rank: 4,762

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• 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, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.