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The Conservationist

Booker Prize Winner (A Novel)

Author Nadine Gordimer
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
5.06"W x 7.71"H x 0.58"D   | 7 oz | 72 per carton
On sale Feb 24, 1983 | 272 Pages | 9780140047165
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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 Books

The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer

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.
  • WINNER
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction
"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)
© Photograph courtesy of the author
Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. View titles by Nadine Gordimer

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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 Books

The Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer

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.

Awards

  • WINNER
    Man Booker Prize for Fiction

Praise

"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)

Author

© Photograph courtesy of the author
Nadine Gordimer is the author of eleven previous novels, as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationist in 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. View titles by Nadine Gordimer

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