num_pages: 299
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.
title: Le conservateur
titlecomplete: Le conservateur
characters: Mehring
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, 20th Century, South Africa, African Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Africa, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2947
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker
publisher: Albin Michel