The conservationist
By: Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780747578246
Subjects: Rich people; Fiction; Natural disasters; Social conditions
Description: Suspense fiction. 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 stewardship; even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm. As the upheaval in Mehring's world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a seismic shift in ideas and concrete action can avert annihilation.