The Conservationist: Booker Prize Winner (A Novel)

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“This is a novel of enormous power’ New Statesman ‘Gordimer is a great writer … It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind’ — New York Review of BooksThe Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine GordimerMehring 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.

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Weight 0.21 kg
Dimensions 1.47 × 12.85 × 3.50 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

272

Publisher

Year Published

1983-2-24

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0140047166

About The Author

Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including A Guest of Honour, The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People, A Sport of Nature, My Son’s Story and None to Accompany Me. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including Jump, and Why Haven’t You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972. Her nonfiction includes The Essential Gesture; On the Mines; The Black Interpreters. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has … been of very great benefit to humanity".

"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer … It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' — New York Review of Books"A triumph of stle … It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective ways." — Paul Theroux"Gordimer has written what must be considered her masterpiece. The beauty and largeness of this land she loves is drawn with a breadth and scope that is breathtaking."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch"This is a novel of enormous power."—The New Statesman'Nadine Gordimer writes of blacks and whites, but her steady, unblinking eye sees something grey there. You could call it human nature, and you would be right' –Daily Telegraph (London) 'Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the World's Great Writers … her rootedness in a political time, place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist' —  Independent (London)

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