Waiting for the Barbarians

Synopsis

The modern classic from double booker prize winner j. M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring mark rylance, robert pattinson and johnny deppfor decades the magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed.