Southern Africa
South Africa
Post-colonial
English
Fiction
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
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editorial-summarynot primary textMehring, 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. Joint winner of the Booker Prize 1974; a key text in the literature of apartheid South Africa
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