Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
by COETZEE, J. M
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 014006110X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140061109
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Synopsis
Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born author J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. The novel was published in 1980 and is regarded as one of Coetzee's finest pieces of writing. It was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019767
- Title
- Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
- Author
- COETZEE, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 014006110X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140061109
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- THE EMPIRE FRONTIER SETTLEMENT BARBARIANS GOVERNMENT ALLEGORY OPPRESSOR OPPRESSED JUSTICE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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