Waiting for the Barbarians
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 8/21/2015
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Synopsis (credit: back cover)
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.
Winner: James Tait Black Memorial Novel 1980.
On the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die List.
(Bought second-hand at Book Wise Exchange, High Street, Bellville.)
Depressing.
Well written, necessary, but utterly depressing.
"Or perhaps it is the case that only that which has not been articulated has to be lived through."
Given to potential BCer RP.
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