num_pages: 113
description: Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and  profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor  Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the  troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s.   The book is written with such keen empathy and  understanding that to read it is to share fully in the  gravity of the characters' situations. It both touches  your heart deeply and inspires a renewed faith in  the dignity of mankind. Cry, the Beloved Country is  a classic tale, passionately African, timeless and  universal, and beyond all, selfless. 
language: English
title: Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country
titlecomplete: Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (Barron's Book Notes)
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc