The Conservationist
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books

The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
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The Conservationist
"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books

The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
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The Conservationist

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist

The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer

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"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- New York Review of Books

The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer

Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his possessions refuse to remain objects. His wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101571064
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/24/1983
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 279 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including A Guest of HonourThe ConservationistBurger’s DaughterJuly’s PeopleA Sport of NatureMy Son’s Story and None to Accompany Me. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including Jump, and Why Haven’t You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972. Her nonfiction includes The Essential GestureOn the MinesThe Black Interpreters. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity".
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