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  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. This is the story of the Magistrate, the elderly civil servant who discovers that his sympathies are not with the oppressive Empire but with the barbarians, poor indigenous people living on the edge of the Empire.