A review by damopedro
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer

3.0

A very frustrating book. She can describe a scene or situation beautifully. Better than most. However she ditched quotation marks when people speak in favour of a dash at either end of their sentence. Why? It makes it harder to know when someone is speaking or to tell just who is speaking. That alone really frustrated me. She also tends to write Mehrings thoughts much like real thoughts take place - with lots of skipping around between the current and the past, mixing up of situations. It's not exactly easy to follow. Not a great book for reading when you're tired and your concentration isn't at its best.