Gordimer, Nadine.
Summary: The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORPaton, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATPaton, Alan.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995