Fiction
Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
The Magistrate tries to maintain civilization while empire crumbles around him. Coetzee writes with spare precision about power, torture, and moral compromise. The unnamed setting makes the story universal, the barbarians could be anyone. Short but overwhelming in its moral weight. For readers ready to examine their own complicity in systems of oppression.
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