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Cry, The Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Scribner
October 2003
On Sale: September 29, 2003
316 pages
ISBN: 0743262174
EAN: 9780743262170
Kindle: B000FBJHL2
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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 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. 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.
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