
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Wincott
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By:
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J. M. Coetzee
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.
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Thought provoking on "the Barbarians". In the context of the book, who are really the barbarians? Aren't the Barbarians pretty much the Empire that treats natives as animals and less?
I recommend this book, but it's really not a joyful reading....but it will stick with you for some time.
Well written book on colonialism and sexuality
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The narrator's voice is what kept me in. Great performance in my opinion.
Mostly about being a horny old man
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An Interesting Read For The Current Times
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Impressive performance by Andrew Wincott
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I should have read it myself.
Read it your self
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