Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
A country pastor searches Johannesburg for a son who has killed.
A Zulu pastor journeys from rural Natal to Johannesburg to find his son, who has killed a white man during a robbery, and confronts the human cost of a fracturing land. Published in the year the National Party formalised apartheid, its lyrical grief reached a vast international readership. It became the most widely read South African novel abroad and an early moral indictment of the country's racial order.
- Author
- Alan Paton
- First published
- 1948
- Genre
- Novel
- Theme
- East, Southern and North African Literature
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