- Administradores coloniales, Allegorías, Colonial administrators, Ficción
For 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 for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and intimate.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 178
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Vintage, Ravan
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- French, Russian, Chinese, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781713524250
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“frontier where people eat certain snakes as a delicacy, and about a huge antelope he shot. He picks his way uncertainly among the strange furniture but does not remove the dark glasses.”
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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