Cry, the Beloved Country

Name: Cry, the Beloved Country
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Alan Paton
ISBN: 9780743262170

Alan Paton • 1948

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined

apartheid South Africa race fathers

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Our Take

Paton wrote this before apartheid was law, which makes its accuracy feel less like prophecy than like witness. Two fathers — one Black, one white — meet in Johannesburg after their sons' fates become catastrophically entangled. The love for South Africa is the wound.

Appears In

► Apartheid Testimony — The Record That Cannot Be Revised ► Post-Colonial Africa — The Nation After the Empire ► Apartheid — The Architecture of Dehumanization ► Latin American Political Fiction — The State That Disappears People

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