"I cannot save the prisoners, therefore let me save myself."
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Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee
[[w: Waiting for the Barbarians | Waiting for the Barbarians ] (first published in 1980) is a Novel by John Maxwell Coetzee, J M Coetzee a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature The book was chosen by Penguin for its series [[Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prizeand Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction
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