Waiting For The Barbarians

1st Edition January 1981, 2nd South African Impression May 1981

Slight tinge of toning, name inscribed FTP, else appears as unread, unblemished copy in wraps displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.

A scarce issue of this author's third book. In this powerful evocation of an outpost of Empire, Coetzee has achieved another disturbing, tautly controlled tour de force --- a compulsive mixture of irony, eroticism, introspection and horror. For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison.

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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