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A wealthy industrialist, attractive to women and not yet 50, Mehring wants nothing that white privilege in a black country can bring him. But the presence of a dead man on his 400-acre farm, asserts that Africa, in the end, is something a white man can't buy. Winner of the 1974 Booker Prize.
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"A triumph of stle It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective a way."
Paul Theroux
"A triumph of stle ... It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective a way."
--Paul Theroux
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"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."
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"This is a novel of enormous power."
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"A triumph of stle ... It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective a way."
--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 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.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0224038311
- ISBN 13 9780224038317
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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