Cry, the Beloved Country (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Alan Paton
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Prisoners, Blacks, Colonialism, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Capital punishment, Ministry or ministers, Ethnic relations, South Africa or South Africans, Clergy, Apartheid
- Locales: Johannesburg, South Africa
The story reveals how the practices of apartheid, as the system of racial segregation is called in South Africa, afflicts both blacks and whites in every aspect of their lives. Set in the late 1940’s, the events point out that only forgiveness and understanding will break down the barriers and put in order the chaos that apartheid has created.
An old black minister travels from his village to Johannesburg, the nation’s modern industrial city, to find his missing relatives. Wandering amid the black shantytowns and the great white-inhabited city which they encircle, he finds...
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