{"product_id":"2026200016220-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: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\n\nPaton 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342769725659,"sku":"2026200016220-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/dc91a93b-274e-4853-9504-d1afb4829ab7.png?v=1790048903","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016220-secondhand-cry-the-beloved-country","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}