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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.

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