Cry, the Beloved Country | Of Faith and Fear: Cry, the Beloved Country
In the following excerpt, the author examines the variety of literary styles Paton employs in Cry, the Beloved Country, and provides a plot summary.
It would be difficult to imagine a landscape or a point on the earth's surface so different in every way from South Africa as Trondheim, Norway. Yet it may have been fortunate for the artist in Alan Paton that Trondheim was the place where he undertook to compose Cry, the Beloved Country. This was not because of any direct influence other than that of loneliness and longing for home. True, he had read John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath in Stockholm, and his sidetrip...
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