The drastic consequences of a life-saving treatment force a man to question everything he knows, in Nadine Gordimer’s absorbing novel
The Conservationist
Written by Nadine Gordimer
- Winner
- The Booker Prize 1974
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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Nadine Gordimer paints a complex portrait of dangerously deluded and wilfully ignorant privilege, set in South Africa during the time of Apartheid
Mehring is rich, with 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. The upheaval in his world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, and it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991
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