01310cam a2200253 4500 165890484 TxAuBib 20060421120000.0 060420s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780684818948 0684818949 (OCoLC)53088744 TxAuBib Paton, Alan. Cry The Beloved Country / By Alan Paton. 2003 Paperback Edition. New York, New York : Scribner, 2003. 316. The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history - An immediate worldwide bestseller when it was 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. It is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people driven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, this is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. 20060420. Racial Tensions - Fiction. Injustice - Fiction. TXBAY