num_pages: 252
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 stewarsship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.
language: English
title: The conservationist
titlecomplete: The conservationist
characters: Mehring
genres: Classics, Nobel Prize, South Africa, African Literature, Novels, Africa, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2947
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker
publisher: McGraw-Hill