Аннотация: Waiting for the Barbarians

The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny Depp
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.

Автор/составитель	Кутзее Джон Максвелл
Год выпуска	2004
ISBN	9780099465935
Производитель	Vintage books
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	169
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	200x130x10 мм
Цвет	Серый
Тип бумаги	офсетная (60-220 г/м2)
Вес	132
Язык	английский