For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison.

General Information

ISBN : 9780749394202
Publisher : vinteb
Imprint : vinteb
Weight (g) : 0.136
Publication date : 30 April 1997
Produced in : United Kingdom
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Bind : Paperback
Edition : New edition
Dewey classification : 823
Pages : 176

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Awards

Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1981 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 1980.

Reviews

"I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of man. He is an artist of a weight and depth that put him beyond ordinary comparisons...Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka." - "Sunday Times"