Overview
Region
Southern Africa
South Africa
Era
Post-colonial
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Mehring, a wealthy white industrialist, buys a farm as a weekend retreat. A Black man's body buried in his fields keeps returning, an uncanny presence that exposes the violence beneath white South African prosperity.
Literary Significance
Joint winner of the Booker Prize 1974; a key text in the literature of apartheid South Africa