The Conservationist
Man Booker Prize Winneraward:man_booker_prize=1974South African fiction (English)Social life and customsFiction
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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. Nadine Gordimer's fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conservationist" left only with the possibility of self-preservation, is also a subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethe in South Africa today.
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Man Booker Prize Winneraward:man_booker_prize=1974South African fiction (English)Social life and customsFictionConservation of natural resources
Setting
South Africa
About the author
Nadine Gordimer
1923 – 2014
Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great benefit to humanity". Gordimer was one of the most honoured female writers of her generation. She received the Booker Prize for *The Conservationist* (1974), and the Central News Agency Literary Award for *The Conservationist, Burger's Daughter* (1979) and *July's People* (1981). Gordimer's writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as *Burger's Daughter* were banned. She was…
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