{"product_id":"the-conservationist-9780140047165","title":"The Conservationist: Booker Prize Winner (a Novel)","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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Booker Prize winning political novel by the Nobel Prize winning author Nadine Gordimer\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\".\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644920336658,"sku":"9780140047165","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f9493a94-ced2-45b6-8983-016b2cfcb546.jpg?v=1733129598","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-conservationist-9780140047165","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}