Waiting for the Barbarians

Name: Waiting for the Barbarians
Author: J.M. Coetzee

by J.M. Coetzee

Colonial magistrate questions torture and occupation in unnamed barbarian state

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J.M. Coetzee

South African novelist who has twice won the Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His austere, elliptical fiction confronts colonialism, shame, and the limits of empathy. He is widely regarded as the greatest living novelist writing in English.

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