One character in this work experiences a recurring dream in which he marches across a snow-covered plain which ends with him staring at the blank, featureless face of a hooded child, and that character is unable to translate the inscriptions on hundreds of white wooden tiles he discovers while digging in the desert. One scene in this work presents twelve naked men strung together by wire piercing their hands and cheeks, and the protagonist ritualistically covers with almond oil the body of a woman with broken ankles. The protagonist is freed by Warrant Officer Mandel, who later flees after the disappearance of another character leading a campaign against the title characters. FTP, name this novel in which Colonel Joll terrorizes a town led by the powerless Magistrate, a work of J. M. Coetzee that shares its title with a Cafauvy poem.
One character in this work experiences a recurring dream in which he marches across a snow-covered plain which ends with him staring at the blank, featureless face of a hooded child, and that character is unable to translate the inscriptions on hundreds of white wooden tiles he discovers while digging in the desert. One scene in this work presents twelve naked men strung together by wire piercing their hands and cheeks, and the protagonist ritualistically covers with almond oil the body of a woman with broken ankles. The protagonist is freed by Warrant Officer Mandel, who later flees after the disappearance of another character leading a campaign against the title characters. FTP, name this novel in which Colonel Joll terrorizes a town led by the powerless Magistrate, a work of J. M. Coetzee that shares its title with a Cafauvy poem.
One character in this work experiences a recurring dream in which he marches across a snow-covered plain which ends with him staring at the blank, featureless face of a hooded child, and that character is unable to translate the inscriptions on hundreds of white wooden tiles he discovers while digging in the desert.
{Waiting for the Barbarians}