Cry, the Beloved Country
β Scribed by Paton, Alan
- Book ID
- 107159617
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a classic tale, passionately African, timeless and universal, and beyond all, selfless.
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An Oprah Book Club selection, _Cry, the Beloved Country_ , the most famous and important novel in South Africaβs history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Patonβs impassioned novel about a black manβs country under white manβs law is a work of searing beauty. _Cry, the beloved c
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SUMMARY: "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share f