Cry, The Beloved Country
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscape of apartheid-era South Africa, Cry, The Beloved Country is a heart-wrenching moral drama that chronicles the desperate journey of a rural Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, as he travels to Johannesburg in search of his lost son — only to uncover a trail of tragedy that cuts to the very soul of a divided nation. Alan Paton's 1948 masterpiece presents a searing indictment of racial injustice and poverty, weaving together the fates of a Black father and a white landowner whose lives are bound by grief, loss, and a fragile, hard-won hope. Paton writes with the spare, biblical cadence of a prophet, giving his prose an almost hymn-like quality that transforms a personal story of suffering into a universal meditation on compassion, forgiveness, and the cost of systemic oppression. Widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th-century literature, the novel argues powerfully that a land cannot be truly beloved until its people — all of its people — are free. Decades after its publication, it remains a towering testament to the enduring human capacity for grace in the face of injustice, leaving the reader to ask: what does it truly mean to love a country that is broken?
Author: Alan Paton
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscape of apartheid-era South Africa, Cry, The Beloved Country is a heart-wrenching moral drama that chronicles the desperate journey of a rural Zulu pastor, Stephen Kumalo, as he travels to Johannesburg in search of his lost son — only to uncover a trail of tragedy that cuts to the very soul of a divided nation. Alan Paton's 1948 masterpiece presents a searing indictment of racial injustice and poverty, weaving together the fates of a Black father and a white landowner whose lives are bound by grief, loss, and a fragile, hard-won hope. Paton writes with the spare, biblical cadence of a prophet, giving his prose an almost hymn-like quality that transforms a personal story of suffering into a universal meditation on compassion, forgiveness, and the cost of systemic oppression. Widely regarded as one of the most important works of 20th-century literature, the novel argues powerfully that a land cannot be truly beloved until its people — all of its people — are free. Decades after its publication, it remains a towering testament to the enduring human capacity for grace in the face of injustice, leaving the reader to ask: what does it truly mean to love a country that is broken?