{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-barbarians-isbn-9780140061109","title":"Waiting for the Barbarians","description":"\u003cb\u003eA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee—a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFor decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“J.M. Coetzee’s vison goes to the nerve-center 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable and original book.” —Graham Greene\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Coetzee, with laconic brilliance, articulates one of the basic problems of our time—how to \u003ci\u003eunderstand\u003c\/i\u003e the mentality behind brutality and injustice.” —Anthony Burgess, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A real literary event.” —Irving Howe, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man . . . Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka.” —Bernard Levin, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include \u003cb\u003eDusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/b\u003e, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the \u003cb\u003eLife and Times of Michael K\u003c\/b\u003e., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003cb\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/b\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The \u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/b\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301595304165,"sku":"NP9780140061109","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140061109.jpg?v=1767743544","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/waiting-for-the-barbarians-isbn-9780140061109","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}