Southern Africa
South Africa
Post-colonial
English
Fiction
A magistrate of an unnamed empire on its frontier becomes complicit in the torture of nomadic 'barbarians' and must confront what he has done. An allegory of colonialism and apartheid that refuses to name itself.
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Considered one of the great political novels of the 20th century; Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in 2003
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editorial-summarynot primary textA magistrate of an unnamed empire on its frontier becomes complicit in the torture of nomadic 'barbarians' and must confront what he has done. An allegory of colonialism and apartheid that refuses to name itself. Considered one of the great political novels of the 20th century; Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in 2003
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