{"product_id":"the-conservationist-isbn-9780140047165","title":"The Conservationist","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' -- \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMehring 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.\"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A triumph of stle … It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective ways.\" —\u003cb\u003ePaul Theroux\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cb\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a novel of enormous power.\"—\u003cb\u003eThe New Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Telegraph (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e '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' —\u003cb\u003eIndependent (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNadine Gordimer \u003c\/b\u003e(1923-2014) Born in Springs, South Africa, she was the author of fourteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eA Guest of Honour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Conservationist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBurger’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJuly’s People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Sport of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Son’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNone to Accompany Me\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short fictio was published in eleven collections including \u003ci\u003eJump\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Haven’t You Written: Selected Stories 1950-1972\u003c\/i\u003e. Her nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Gesture\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOn the Mines\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Black Interpreters\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\".","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301628465381,"sku":"NP9780140047165","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140047165.jpg?v=1767738824","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-conservationist-isbn-9780140047165","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}