Waiting for the Barbarians
A Novel (Penguin Ink)
A Novel
A Novel
By J. M. Coetzee
Illustrated by C. C. Askew
By J. M. Coetzee
Illustrated by C. C. Askew
By J. M. Coetzee
By J. M. Coetzee
By J. M. Coetzee
By J. M. Coetzee
Category: Literary Fiction | Military Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Military Fiction | Historical Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction | Military Fiction | Historical Fiction
Life and Times of Michael K
Arrow of God
Fifth Business
Going After Cacciato
What Is the What
The African Trilogy
Saving Fish from Drowning
Disgrace
Praise
Praise for Waiting for the Barbarians:
“J.M. Coetzee’s vison goes to the nerve-center of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer’s mastery of tension and elegance.” —Nadine Gordimer
“A remarkable and original book.” —Graham Greene
“Coetzee, with laconic brilliance, articulates one of the basic problems of our time—how to understand the mentality behind brutality and injustice.” —Anthony Burgess, New York
“A real literary event.” —Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review
“I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man . . . Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka.” —Bernard Levin, The Sunday Times (London)
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