Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

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Zusammenfassung

A novel depicting the racial ferment in the beautiful country of South Africa in 1948.

Cry, the Beloved Country Zusammenfassung

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

"Cry, the Beloved Country" is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s.

The book is written with such keen empathy and understanding that to read it is to share fully in the gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in the dignity of mankind. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a classic tale, passionately African, timeless and universal, and beyond all, selfless.

Cry, the Beloved Country Bewertungen

"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."--Literary Critic Lewis Gannett

Über Alan Paton

Alan Paton, a native son of South Africa, was born in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, in 1903. Paton's initial career was spent teaching in schools for the sons of rich, white South Africans, But at thirty, he suffered a severe attack of enteric fever, and in the time he had to reflect upon his life, he decided that he did not want to spend his life teaching the sons of the rich. He got a job as principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, a huge prison school for delinquent black boys, on the edge of Johannesburg. He worked at Diepkloof for ten years, and at the end of it Paton felt so strongly that he needed a change, that he sold his life insurance policies to finance a prison-study trip that took him to Scandinavia, England, and the United States. It was during this time that he unexpectedly wrote his first published novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. It stands as the single most important novel in South African literature. Alan Paton died in 1988 in South Africa.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR001618745

ISBN 13

9780743262170

ISBN 10

0743262174

Titel

Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton

Autor

Alan Paton

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Simon & Schuster Ltd

Datum

2003-09-29

Anzahl der Seiten

316

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