Cry, the Beloved Country
5 journalers for this copy...
A few weeks later, shortly before school was to start, I had to go back into that room about some books my children needed and the book was still sitting there. I decided to take it back and release it somewhere else. Maybe I should have left it there, but I didn't.
My daughter did read the other copy of this book. She did not enjoy it and complained about it. What fifteen-year-old wouldn't? However, I am sure that it is good for young people to read something like this and force them to think about it. Thank you, cait017 for sending this to us.
Released 19 yrs ago (3/23/2005 UTC) at Pyan's Get These Books on the Road Bookbox in Pyan's Get These Books On the Road Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
putting this into Pyan's "Get these Books on the Road" Bookbox
Amazon 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.
Released 18 yrs ago (8/30/2005 UTC) at RABCK to fellow Bookcrossing member in RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Sending off to Quinnsmom -- not sure if you've read this one, but "Blue Rose" needed a traveling companion. ;)
Thanks -- a total surprise book -- the best kind! And I haven't read it yet! LOL
Ndotsheni,in Natal, is the home of pastor Stephen Kumalo and his wife. They receive a letter from a fellow priest Msimangu, who is from Johannesburg, saying that Stephen's sister Gertrude is ill and that Stephen should come right away. He and his wife decide he must take the trip, despite the fact that it will take away most of the money they've saved, because in Johannesburg Stephen might receive some word of their son, Absalom, who left home and who hasn't been in touch with his family since. Once there, he finds his sister, then goes out in search of his son, only to find that he has become a criminal; while Stephen is there, Absalom is arrested for the murder of Arthur Jarvis, who saw the racial injustice being done to the South Africans and fought for some measure of rights for these people. The story goes on after Arthur's death and the effects that this man's death has on not only his father, but on Stephen as well. A very poignant look at a very ugly subject; well worth every second I spent on it.
Thank you again for passing this one my way. I truly savored it.