Cry, the Beloved Country
First published 1940
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This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948.
Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, " We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin.
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In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice.
Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. - Jacket flap.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Alan Paton
- First published
- 1940
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780224605786