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Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

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#1940 of 8,085 books · #895 in Fiction

Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (1949).

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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Publisher
Longman
ISBN-13
9780140012743
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Racial injusticeFather-son relationshipFaith and redemption

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