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Cry, the beloved country, Alan Paton

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Cry, the beloved country, Alan Paton

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eng

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860L, Lexile

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fiction

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Cry, the beloved country

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230962173

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Alan Paton

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Accelerated Reader, UG, 6.2, 14, 14, 12780

Summary

This is a new reading of Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, Cry, the beloved country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Written with keen compassion and understanding, the novel powerfully evokes the experience of a land and a people torn by racial injustice. 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. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the beloved country is a work of love and hope, of courage and tragedy, born of the dignity of man

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