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Waiting for the Barbarians

(1980)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1980 James Tait Black Memorial Prize

A novel in which, for decades, the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, but a quixotic act of rebellion lands him in jail, branded an enemy of the state.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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