Book · 1948 · Fiction

Cry, the Beloved Country

Scribner (Simon & Schuster) · 320 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score

A Zulu parson goes to Johannesburg to find his son and learns the boy killed a white man who fought for black South Africans. Paton's fifteen million readers made apartheid a world scandal.

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1948Depicts Apartheid South AfricaDepicts 1940s

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