Originally published: 1 February 1948
Author: Alan Paton
Pages: 256 pp (hardback ed., UK) 273 pp (hardback ed., US)
Characters: Stephen Kumalo, James Jarvis, Reverend Msimangu, John Kumalo, Absalom Kumalo
Genres: Novel, Political fiction
Awards: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction
Link: https://amzn.to/3v9gGbw
Description:
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… Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead.”

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