For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.
J. M. Coetzee: Deng dai ye man ren (Chinese language, 2002, Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si)
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276 pages
Chinese language
Published 2002 by Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si.