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By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $350.00 $280.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200388
ISBN: 0436200120
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned. 1990 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren writes a testament to her lost daughter, now living in America. Her account describes her relationship with the tramp, Vercueil, who becomes her silent companion and confessor as she tries to make her peace with the world. The novel is an anguished lament for a country on th... View more info
By: Coetzee, J.M.
Price: $6.00 $4.80
Publisher: Penguin: 1999
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2286507
ISBN: 0140283358
Condition: Very Good
Ink marks to endpaper. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Waiting for the Barbarians centers on the crisis of the conscience of the Magistrate—a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the barbarians. After he witnesses the cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war, he reconsiders his role in the regime and carries out a quixotic act of rebellion. View more info
