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Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Read More..

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Description	Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also written an opera of the same name based on the book which premiered in September 2005 in Erfurt, Germany.Coetzee took the title from the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy. Book Review Desk "Waiting for the Barbarians". Constantine P. Cavafy. Retrieved May 27, 2008.
Description	Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. First published in 1980, it was chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. American composer Philip Glass has also written an opera of the same name based on the book which premiered in September 2005 in Erfurt, Germany.Coetzee took the title from the poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy. Book Review Desk "Waiting for the Barbarians". Constantine P. Cavafy. Retrieved May 27, 2008.

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Name	Waiting for the Barbarians
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Authors	J. M. Coetzee
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Genre	Novel
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Language	English
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Country	South Africa
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Pages	156 pp (hardback edition)
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	0-436-10295-1
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Oclc	7742021
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Publisher	Secker & Warburg
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