Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
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“@cblatts @poverty_action Factfulness by @HansRosling Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Madam President by @helenecooper Born a Crime by @Trevornoah All of these have excellent audio books, too.”
Source →“@cblatts @poverty_action Factfulness by @HansRosling Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Madam President by @helenecooper Born a Crime by @Trevornoah All of these have excellent audio books, too.”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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 ea...
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“@cblatts @poverty_action Factfulness by @HansRosling Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Madam President by @helenecooper Born a Crime by @Trevornoah All of these have excellent audio books, too.”
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