Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1948 • Scribner

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

TRADE PAPERBACK [1948] CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Presumed 1960's printing.  Trade paperback in very good condition. 

Cover has some mild creasing but is otherwise excellent.  Binding is perfect.  Pages have some mild tanning.  Perfect vintage reading copy.  

Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller 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 deeply 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 for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.