Cover of Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

1948 283 pages eng ★ 3.9 (13 ratings)

This book is 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 …

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