The conservationist

Description:

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. Nadine Gordimer's fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conservationist" left only with the possibility of self-preservation, is also a subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.

subjects: Man Booker Prize Winner,  award:man_booker_prize=1974,  South African fiction (English),  Social life and customs,  Fiction,  Conservation of natural resources,  Nature,  Fiction, general,  English fiction,  Fiction in English,  Alienation (Social psychology),  Rich people,  Natural disasters,  Social conditions,  Fiction, action & adventure,  South africa, fiction

Places: South Africa