Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Africa African Literature Classics Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Nobel Prize Novels South Africa

Written by J.M. Coetzee
Read by Andrew Wincott
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

For 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.

J. M. Coetzee’s prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. 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.

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
Release date: 19-12-19