Cry, the Beloved Country Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country

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Publisher Description

An Oprah Book Club selection, 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.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2003
November 25
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Scribner
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
766.2
KB

Customer Reviews

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Shmeh

It truly depends on what your into. As for being a teen, I found it quite exhausting. I had to read it for English class and ended up using sparknotes near the end. It's well written and all just the storyline is kinda bland.

Kirkules ,

Changed me

This is one of my favorite books of all time. My experience in this book changed me, realizing that there is there are different perspectives to which we should see life and situations. I think it is a beautiful story. Absolutely recommend.

LiaDolan ,

I have not read this book

I have not read this book before; therefore, I am not qualified to write a review.

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