The conservationist
By: (by) Nadine Gordimer.
Publisher: Cape
Published: 1974
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Fiction in English.
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 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.