num_pages: 267
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: 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Africa, South Africa, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, African Literature
ratings_count: 2947
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker
publisher: Penguin Books