• Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country

Author
Publication Date
November 01, 2003
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  11th − 12th
Language
English
Cry, the Beloved Country

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.
Publication date
November 01, 2003
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743262170
Lexile Measure
860
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Series
Oprah's Classics Book Club Selections
BISAC categories
FIC019000 - Fiction | Literary
FIC042000 - Fiction | Christian | General
FIC004000 - Fiction | Classics
Library of Congress categories
Race relations
Political fiction
South Africa
Apartheid