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The Conservationist

The Conservationist

Author(s): Nadine Gordimer

Location(s): South Africa

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1970s

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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. 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.

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This is a story that may have more resonance for those who lived in or visited South Africa during the seventies.(Bookworm)

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