Cry the Beloved Country the story of comfort in desolation by Alan Paton FIRST EDITION AFRICANA
“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 wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."
“Cry, the Beloved Country is the 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”Book dedicated to his wife and Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr.
Jonathan Cape Publishers, First published 1948. Hardcover, no dust jacket, 269p.
Condition: normal age yellowing and spotting, slight fraying at bottom of spine, name of previous owner on flyleaf.
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