by J.M.Coetzee (Author)
For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire. When the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: New
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12 May 1997
ISBN 10: 074939420X
ISBN 13: 9780749394202
Prizes: Winner of Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 1981 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 1980.