Waiting for the Barbarians, Hardcover

Descriere

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience 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."" After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion. ""The Good Story""by J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz is coming from Viking Books on September 29, 2015

Despre autor

J.M. Coetzee

scriitor sud-african · n. 1940

John Maxwell Coetzee este un romancier sud-african, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 2003. Viziunile sale pesimiste referitoare la Africa de Sud, după abolirea apartheidului, a provocat controverse.