Waiting for the Barbarians
$20.90
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2019
Summary
Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents.
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 wo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925773866 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925773868 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 158g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘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 *
J.M. Coetzee
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. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang was born in exile to South African parents - a freedom fighter and an accountant - and raised in Zambia, Kenya, and Canada before studying in the US as an undergraduate. Her family returned to South Africa after apartheid was abolished in the early 1990s. Sisonke has held fellowships at Yale University, the Aspen Institute, and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Daily Maverick, and New York Times. She now lives in Perth, Australia, where she is head of oral storytelling at the Centre for Stories.
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