by J.M. Coetzee · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749394202
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In 'Waiting for the Barbarians,' J.M. Coetzee presents a magistrate who has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement for decades, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire he serves. However, the arrival of interrogation experts leads him to sympathize with the victims and to perform an act of rebellion that lands him in prison, marked as an enemy of the state. This novel is an allegory of oppressors and oppressed, where the magistrate represents those who live in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.
