Six Feet - Of The Country By Nadine Gordimer Summary

The couple’s relative peace is shattered when their black servant, , brings them devastating news. The narrator’s younger brother, who had recently arrived from the north (presumably Rhodesia or another African country) to live in the "compound" (a segregated barracks for black workers), has died of pneumonia. The narrator is shocked because he barely knew this brother; the man was simply one of many black workers on the property.

Primarily Petrus and his family, who live and work on the land under the narrator’s authority. six feet of the country by nadine gordimer summary

The narrator attempts to fix the mistake, but he is met with indifference from the officials. Ultimately, the money is lost, the brother is never found, and the family is left with nothing. The couple’s relative peace is shattered when their

Because the brother was an "illegal" immigrant, the take the body for an autopsy and burial. Petrus and his father want to give the brother a proper funeral and ask the narrator to help retrieve the body. After paying a significant fee of twenty pounds (raised by the workers), the narrator navigates the bureaucracy to have the body returned. Primarily Petrus and his family, who live and