{"product_id":"2026200013775-secondhand-cry-the-beloved-country","title":"Cry, The Beloved Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched hills of Natal, South Africa, a humble Zulu pastor named Stephen Kumalo embarks on a desperate journey to Johannesburg in search of his wayward son, only to confront the devastating moral and social fractures tearing his country apart. Cry, the Beloved Country, first published in 1948, is a landmark work of historical fiction that chronicles the collision of two worlds — the deeply rooted tribal traditions of rural Zulu life and the brutal, racially stratified machinery of apartheid-era South Africa — culminating in an act of violence that will determine the fate of both Kumalo's family and the white landowner whose son his own has killed.\n\nAlan Paton writes with the lyrical gravity of scripture, crafting prose that is at once an elegy and an indictment — a mournful cry against injustice and a luminous testament to human compassion. The novel argues with moral urgency that a nation cannot heal while its people remain divided by fear and prejudice, and it does so through characters of profound, aching humanity. Celebrated as one of the most important works of 20th-century literature, it remains as searingly relevant today as the day it was written — a story that asks whether love and forgiveness can endure in a land that has all but forgotten them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160898085083,"sku":"2026200013775-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/98d61379-caec-46f3-97d6-64599db69fb9.png?v=1787188264","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013775-secondhand-cry-the-beloved-country","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}