false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255573610m/6150.jpg 6150 70 <B>Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."</B><P>The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and 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. The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, "We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton's <I>Cry, the Beloved Country</I> the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony."<P><I>Cry, the Beloved Country</I> 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 riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, <I>Cry, the Beloved Country</I> is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.<P> 59082 1948 Cry, the Beloved Country total:9663|5:3133|4:3361|3:2155|2:744|1:270| 9663 37332 12447 979 5 5 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 24 23:59:36 -0700 2007 Fri May 02 17:06:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 08:02:16 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 08:24:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Jun 04 14:27:02 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 14:39:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Jun 04 09:49:25 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 09:51:12 -0700 2008

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"What are master-pieces and why are there so few of them?" was Gertrude Stein's rhetorical question. Gertrude would have found plenty to criticize about Cry, the Beloved Country. Sentimental; politically correct; intensely personal; carefully crafted; embedded in ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:27:34 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:57:57 -0700 2009
No one who goes to Johannesburg returns. It is the opiate den which enslaves and entraps those who go there. It offers so much but gives so little.

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