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Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country

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 most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. 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.”

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Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1948

A következő kiadói sorozatban jelent meg: Vintage Classics Vintage

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Scribner, New York, 2003
320 oldal · ISBN: 9780743262170
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Vintage, London, 2002
240 oldal · ISBN: 9780099766810

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