Waiting for the Barbarians
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- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2019
Summary
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.
After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925773866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925773868 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee, Sisonke Msimang |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 198mm x 130mm |
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‘A real literary event.’
‘A real literary event.’ * New York Times Book Review *
‘I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man…Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka.’ * Sunday Times (London) *
‘A power of historical immediacy gives this novel its thrust, its larger and, if you wish, universal value.’ * New York Times Books of the Century *
About The Author
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. He lives in Adelaide.
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