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Literature · 1980

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

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Waiting for the Barbarians
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A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.

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A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.

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A magistrate on the frontier confronts the Empire's brutality. Colonialism as moral parable.

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