By J. M. Coetzee
Expecting the Barbarians is a singular by way of the South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. the unconventional was once released in 1980. It used to be selected by way of Penguin for its sequence nice Books of the twentieth Century and received either the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has additionally written an opera of a similar identify according to the publication which premiered in September 2005 in Erfurt, Germany.
Coetzee took the name from the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by means of Greek-Egyptian poet Constantine P. Cavafy. After Coetzee gained the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, awaiting the Barbarians used to be selected by means of Penguin Books for its sequence "Great Books of the twentieth Century". The Nobel Prize committee referred to as watching for the Barbarians "a political mystery within the culture of Joseph Conrad, within which the idealist’s naiveté opens the gates to horror". --Wikipedia
"A genuine literary event."--The ny instances booklet Review
"A tale of profound attractiveness, readability and eloquence, which even at its so much melodramatic holds to a biblical nobility."--Chicago Tribune booklet World
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