Wednesday, June 11, 2008

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY- ALAN PATON


CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY
This book was first published in 1948 and it tells the story of Rev. Stephen Kumalo, the Zulu pastor and his son Absalom. It is set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The pastor leaves his village in Natal to Johannesburg to search for his son who dissapeared. Johannesburg, is a city in despair, the wrath of apartheid everywhere......

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