This novel shared the Booker Prize in 1974. It follows a wealthy white industrialist who buys a farm purely as a status symbol, only to have the land itself—and a buried body—reject his ownership. It is a layered allegory of white guilt and land dispossession. What a "fixed" PDF looks like: Correct handling of flashbacks and stream-of-consciousness sections. Many broken PDFs merge Mehring’s thoughts with narration.