The Conservationist - Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
Auflage | 2005 |
Seiten | 323 |
Format | 20 cm |
Gewicht | 238 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
ISBN-10 | 0747578249 |
EAN | 9780747578246 |
Bestell-Nr | 74757824EA |
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.