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The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer

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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. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Year
2012
ISBN-13
9781408832974
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Apartheid and racial injusticeLand ownership and belongingIsolation and moral reckoning

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