Cry, the Beloved Country

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, 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.