Mehring, a wealthy, dominating South African industrialist moves to preserve his way of life, his power, and his possessions in the face of massive injustice and suffering, changing times, and death.
Nadine Gordimer, 1923 in Transvaal geboren, beschäftigt sich in ihren Erzählungen mit dem Leben in Südafrika unter den Bedingungen der Apartheidpolitik. Bekannt wurde sie durch Romane wie Fremdling unter Fremden, Der Ehrengast, Burgers Tochter, Julys Leute. Im Jahre 1991 erhielt Nadine Gordimer den Nobelpreis für Literatur.
Pressestimmen
"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
"A triumph of stle It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective ways." 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 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' Daily Telegraph (London)
'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' Independent (London)
