{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-barbarians-1","title":"Waiting for the Barbarians","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWaiting for the Barbarians\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJ M Coetzee\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140061109\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1982\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eRevised ed.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A FILM STARRING MARK RYLANCE, JOHNNY DEPP, AND ROBERT PATTINSON \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eHis latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ. 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Waiting for the Barbarians | J M Coetzee | Paperback | 9780140061109 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1644675","offer_id":48753930240152,"sku":"1644675","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/A1y0eu2UbLL_2dabe0ff-202e-474a-973a-0e49fd2a5da3.jpg?v=1774069114","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-barbarians-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}