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020			_a9780099465935
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Building No.-4405/2. _c; 120395 _d: 22/04/2024
082			_a823 COE
100			_aCoetzee, J. M.
245			_aWaiting for the Barbarians _c/ J.M. Coetzee.
260			_a, London _b: Vintage Books _c, 2004.
300			_a169p. _c: 18cm.
365			_b969
520			_aFor 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.
650			_aFiction
650			_aNovel
650			_aBarbarians and the Empire
700			_aJ.M. Coetzee
942			_cBOOK
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