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Cry, the beloved country /

Paton, Alan

Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton - 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed - New York : Simon & Schuster, c1948 - 316 p. ; 21 cm

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948. American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading

In the city of Johannesburg a father seeks his delinquent son. His search takes him through a labyrinth of murder, prostitution, racial hatred and, ultimately, reconciliation.

0684818949

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Apartheid--South Africa--Fiction


South Africa--Race relations--Fiction

PR9369.3.P37 / C7 1995

813.54