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20th Century
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The Conservationist

1983Nadine Gordimer

4.8/5

Money doesn't buy happiness, and happiness doesn't buy safety.During the South Africa's apartheid period, "Mehring" is one of many white business men, industrialist, powerful, very wealthy. In a sudden lordship impulse he acquires a country house, to escape the city on weekends. His life revolves around the job and the coming and goings to the country house. A great empty house, an incipient harvest, the people working the land, an estranged ex-wife, an alienated son, business, lovers. And the country house, always the damned country house. And the sudden appearance of a dead man in the fields, that nobody cares about.An excessively boring 300p novel, that could maybe have created a lot more impact if they had been only fifty, just telling the beginning and the end. Everything else seemed almost superfluous. I have never dnf a book, but I really really wanted to with this one. One of those yellowed books you sometimes find in the old family book shelf. Curiosity didn't kill the cat, just me this time.Until next time, -----------------------------------------------El dinero no compra felicidad, y la felicidad no compra seguridad.Durante el período del apartheid de Africa del Sur, "Mehring" es uno de tantos hombres blancos de negocios, industrial, poderoso, muy acaudalado. En un impulso de señor feudal adquiere una finca para escapar de la ciudad los fines de semana. Su vida transcurre entre el trabajo y las idas y vueltas hacia la finca. Una gran casa desierta, una incipiente cosecha, la gente que trabaja la tierra, una ex esposa distante, un hijo alienado, negocios, amantes. Y la bendita finca, siempre la bendita finca. Y la misteriosa aparición de un muerto en los campos, que a nadie le importa.Una aburridísima novela de casi 300p, que tal hubiera generado mucho mayor impacto si hubieran sido tan sólo cincuenta contando el principio y el final. Todo lo demás resulta prácticamente supérfluo. Nunca dejé un libro sin terminar, pero tuve muchas muchas ganas de abandonar éste. Amarillentos libros que a veces uno encuentra en la vieja biblioteca familiar. La curiosidad no mató al gato, sólo a mí esta vez.Hasta la próxima,

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