num_pages: 11
description: Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, takes the train to Johannesburg in search of his son Absalom, of whom he has heard nothing for many months. Unfaltering courage and simple faith lead him through a country now alien to him, past people to whom he is invisible, in search of a son and in search of answers to the questions that haunt him: what is justice? what is freedom? where is hope?
language: English
title: Cry, The Beloved Country
titlecomplete: Cry, The Beloved Country
characters: Stephen Kumalo, James Jarvis, Msimangu, Absalom Kumalo
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Africa, South Africa, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 73538
places: South Africa
awards: awardedAt: -662659200000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Recorded Books