Waiting for the Barbarians

1 About this book

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.

• Political persecution
• Immigrants
• Racism
• Emigration and immigration
• Africa
• Gardeners
• Allegories
• Drug abuse