NY, Penguin Press, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages. 1st American edition of the Nobel laureate's 1st book published in the US. This is a paperback original, near fine in black pictorial wraps with the pages typically age-toned. Waiting for the Barbarians, written during the apartheid regime in South Africa, examines and questions the legitimacy of colonialism through the eyes of its protagonist, an unnamed Magistrate who governs a province that borders lands inhabited by a population of so-called barbarians. Clean copy.
