TY - BOOK AU - Paton,Alan TI - Cry, the beloved country SN - 0684818949 AV - PR9369.3.P37 C7 1995 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1948/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Apartheid KW - South Africa KW - Fiction KW - Race relations N1 - 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 ER -