Cry, the beloved country : the novel, the critics, the setting / [Edited by] Sheridan Baker.
Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty. It tells the story of a father’s journey from rural South Africa to and through the city of Johannesburg in search of his son. The reader cannot help but feel deeply for the central character, a Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, and the tortuous discoveries he makes in Johannesburg. It is in a prison cell that Kumalo eventually finds his son, Absalom, who is facing trial for the murder of a white man—a man who ironically cared deeply about the plight of the native South African population and had been a voice for change until his untimely death. Here we meet another father, that of the victim, whose own journey to understand his son eventually leads to his life and grief becoming strangely entwined with Kumalo’s. - Encyclopedia Britannica
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- ISBN: 0743262174 (sc)
- Physical Description: xviii, 221 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, [1968]
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