Waiting for the Barbarians

AvJ.M. Coetzee

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Engelska, 2015

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

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-28
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781446424964
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of Jesus and The Death of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

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"A remarkable and original book" -- Graham Greene "J. M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance" -- Nadine Gordimer "A powerful - even prophetic - intelligence at work" Independent on Sunday "This is a voice at once authoritative and subtle: a very powerful combination" -- Hermione Lee Observer "A writer of formidable strength. His novel is important not only for its theme but also for the beauty and clarity of his style" Daily Telegraph

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