Nadine gordimer the conservationist summary

When Mehring, a businessman who owns a "hobby" farm in South Africa, is made aware that a body has been found on his property, it forces him to examine his own life and mortality.

As the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s sweeps the world, the apartheid system in "old" South Africa is starting to crumble. Mehring takes in this changing scene as he deals with the black workers on his farm, his activist girlfriend, his bitter ex-wife in the U.S.

and his rebellious son. Mehring must think hard about what he really wants out of life.

Farm owner and industrialist Mehring is informed by Jacobus, his head work hand, that a body has been found by the river on his property.

Nadine gordimer the conservationist summary

Mehring examines the body, noting the nice clothes. No one knows who the man is. Mehring calls the police and is annoyed that they see no urgency in sending an officer to the farm. They finally agree to visit the next day.

Mehring is from the city.

The farm is his escap