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100 _aJ. M. Coetzee
245 _aWaiting For The Barbarians
260 _aLondon
_bVintage Books
_c2000
300 _a169
500 _aFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state.
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