| ID | 020497 |
| Call Number | 823/COE |
| Title Proper | Waiting for the barbarians |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Coetze, J.M. |
| Publication | London, Vintage Books, 2004. |
| Description | 170p Brown spine |
| Note | For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and his Empire. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which sees him imprisoned as an enemy of the state. |
| Standard Number | 9780099465935 |
| Price. Qualification | £8.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 823 |
| Key Words | Africa - Fiction ; IBDP ; Allegories ; South African literature ; Nobel Prize Winner for literature ; Colonial administrators - Fiction |