About this Item
1st UK and true 1st soft cover edition, preceded by Secker & Warburg hardcover edition. A very nice, bright copy in wraps with very slight edge wear, protected by heavy-duty mylar jacket. Some tanning to page edges and a previous owner's note on first recto page. Seller Inventory # 000076
Bibliographic Details
Title: Waiting for the Barbarians
Publisher: Penguin, Middlesex
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The 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.
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.
"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)
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