Author

Publication

1988 - Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England

Language

English

Word Count

59,750 words, Guess

Page Count

239 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC823.9
  • LCCPR9369.3.P37 C79 1988

Description

This book 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.

Description

Anti-apartheid story about a black man in South Africa charged with the killing of a white who had devoted his life to justice for the blacks. The parents of these two work to find the truth.

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Other Editions

  • Cry, the beloved country: a story of comfort in desolationPenguin Books1988-01-01
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