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Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1948
Pages
Pages 320

A rural Zulu pastor travels to Johannesburg and finds the city has ruined his sister into prostitution and his son into a killing. He brings his son home to be hanged, and finds unlikely comfort in the dead man's grieving father.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear.
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton

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