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Waiting For the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee

Waiting For the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee

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Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African writer J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction.

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