Cry, the Beloved Country

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Simon and Schuster, 25 nov. 2003 - 320 pages
An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.”

Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.
 

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Table des matières

Section 1
2
Section 2
4
Section 3
10
Section 4
14
Section 5
19
Section 6
25
Section 7
30
Section 8
38
Section 20
130
Section 21
135
Section 22
143
Section 23
152
Section 24
157
Section 25
161
Section 26
167
Section 27
174

Section 9
47
Section 10
55
Section 11
64
Section 12
68
Section 13
78
Section 14
85
Section 15
94
Section 16
101
Section 17
107
Section 18
116
Section 19
123
Section 28
178
Section 29
185
Section 30
197
Section 31
206
Section 32
215
Section 33
223
Section 34
231
Section 35
240
Section 36
245
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Affichage d'extraits - 1995
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Affichage d'extraits - 1948
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Affichage d'extraits - 1982
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Expressions et termes fréquents

Absalom Kumalo afraid Afrikaners Alan Paton Alexandra asked Beloved Country Bishop brother called chief child church climbed daughter Diepkloof door eyes Father Vincent fear Gertrude girl gone Goodnight hands Harrison hear heard hills husband inkosana Ixopo Jan Hofmeyr Jarvis Johannesburg John Harrison John Kumalo Judge knew Kumalo looked Kumalo stood land laughed letter Lithebe live maize man’s mean mines Mkize mother Msimangu murder native Ndotsheni never Nkosi Sikelel o’clock Pafuri Parkwold Paton Pietermaritzburg Pimville police pray priest rain reformatory remember save Africa Shanty Town shillings silent small boy smiled Sophiatown sorry South Africa speak spoke stay street talk tell thank things thought Tixo told took turned umfundisi umnumzana Umzimkulu understand valley voice wait walked wife wish woman words young demonstrator young white Zulu

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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Alan Paton, a native son of South Africa, was born in Pietermaritzburg, in the province of Natal, in 1903. Paton's initial career was spent teaching in schools for the sons of rich, white South Africans, But at thirty, he suffered a severe attack of enteric fever, and in the time he had to reflect upon his life, he decided that he did not want to spend his life teaching the sons of the rich. He got a job as principal of Diepkloof Reformatory, a huge prison school for delinquent black boys, on the edge of Johannesburg. He worked at Diepkloof for ten years, and at the end of it Paton felt so strongly that he needed a change, that he sold his life insurance policies to finance a prison-study trip that took him to Scandinavia, England, and the United States. It was during this time that he unexpectedly wrote his first published novel, Cry, the Beloved Country. It stands as the single most important novel in South African literature. Alan Paton died in 1988 in South Africa.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreCry, the Beloved Country
AuteurAlan Paton
Éditionréimprimée
ÉditeurSimon and Schuster, 2003
ISBN0743262441, 9780743262446
Longueur320 pages
  
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