Author: Alan Paton
Year: 1948
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Classic, Award winners
Culture: Africa
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9780743262170
9780743261951
0743262174
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Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller 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. In Alan Paton's
the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
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,
is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
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