Cry, the Beloved Country
By Alan Paton
Foreword by Charles Scribner, Jr.
Read by Michael York
Unabridged
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4 Formats: CD
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4 Formats: Library CD
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4 Formats: MP3 CD
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4 Formats: Playaway
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ISBN: 9781433213694
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ISBN: 9781433213670
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ISBN: 9781433213687
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ISBN: 9781433290695
| Runtime: | 9.81 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection
An Audible.com Bestseller
A worldwide bestseller when it was first 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 Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also the story of a land and a people torn by racial injustice. The book is written with such keen compassion and understanding that the listener shares fully in the gravity of the characters’ situations.
Paton said of his book: “It is a song of love for one’s far distant country.” Thus, it is a tale that is passionately African while also being timeless and universal. Ultimately, Cry, the Beloved Country is a work of love and hope, courage and tragedy, born of the dignity of man.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Alan Paton
Alan Paton (1903–1988), South African novelist and humanitarian worker, was born in 1903 in Pietermaritzburg in the province of Natal, South Africa. After attending Pietermaritzburg College and Natal University, he taught school for three years in the rural village of Ixopo, the setting for Cry, the Beloved Country.
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Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 9.81 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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