Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) - Softcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140283358 ISBN 13: 9780140283358

Verlag: Penguin Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Coetzee J M

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"A real literary event" --Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review (front-page review)

"I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man.... Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka." --Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times (London)

Reseña del editor:

A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate—a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians." After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion.

Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra, and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.

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• Verlag: Penguin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140283358
• ISBN 13: 9780140283358
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160