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Cry, the beloved country

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  • Running Time: 09:48 hrs
    Narrator: Michael York
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    Distributed by OneClick Digital
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 09:48 hrs
    Narrator: Michael York
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    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Paton, Alan
    Contributor: York, Michael
    Date:
    Created
    20151992
    Summary:

    This is the most distinguished novel that has come out of South Africa in the 20th century, and it is one of the most important novels that has appeared anywhere in modern times. Cry, the Beloved Country is in some ways a sad book; it is an indictment of a social system that drives native races into resentment and crime; it is a story of Fate, as inevitable, as relentless, as anything of Thomas Hardy's. Beautifully wrought with high poetic compassion, Cry, the Beloved Country is more than just a story, it is a profound experience of the human spirit. And beyond the intense and insoluble personal tragedy, it is the story of the beautiful and tragic land of South Africa, its landscape, its people, and its bitter racial ferment and unrest.

    Subject(s): Apartheid | Race relations
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781490667607, 1490667601