Title | : | The Conservationist |
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Author | : | Nadine Gordimer |
Release | : | 2010-08-23 |
Kind | : | audiobook |
Genre | : | Fiction |
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1 | The Conservationist | Nadine Gordimer |
Mehring, a rich, powerful and vital industrialist, 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; and even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, paints a fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conservationist" left only with the possibility of self-preservation, in this subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethed in South Africa. |