A
book (later adapted into a
movie) by
Alan Paton (pronounced pay-ton I believe). Set in
South Africa durring the
reign of the
Apartheid. A very touching
novel that gives insight into what it was like in South Africa at the time. From the back cover of my copy:
"An immediate worldwide
bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's
impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of
searing beauty.
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, unforgetable 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."