В ожидании варваров. Жизнь и время Михаэла К.

J.M. Coetzee - Nobel Prize laureate 2003. The most mysterious writer of all Nobel laureates, twice awarded the Booker Prize and never showing up for the award ceremony.

The novel "Waiting for the Barbarians" was included in the list of the hundred best novels of all time, compiled in 2003 by The Observer newspaper.

A small town on the outskirts of a nameless Empire, agitated by the news of an imminent attack by barbarian tribes from the border deserts. A colonel arrived from the heart of the Empire, ready to harass anyone just to extract the necessary testimony from a person. A city judge who does not want to give in to panic and, as a result, has turned from an accuser into an accused. A captive girl who became an object of sensual and religious worship for the judge.

"The Life and Times of Michael K." - a novel about an era in which “discord is the common father of all and the common king of all, and he declares some to be gods and others to be men,” and about a man who is bypassed by God’s favor, but finds peace of mind in the turbulent world that surrounds him.

A real pleasure for connoisseurs of intellectual literature.