Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by cait017 of Cincinnati, Ohio USA on 4/14/2004
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5 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by cait017 from Cincinnati, Ohio USA on Wednesday, April 14, 2004
It took a couple tries for me to get into this book. Once I got used to Paton's sparse writing style, the story flowed easily.

Journal Entry 2 by cait017 from Cincinnati, Ohio USA on Tuesday, May 25, 2004
mailed to fellow BXer today

Journal Entry 3 by tabby-cat-owner from Bellingham, Washington USA on Wednesday, June 2, 2004
received in the post from Cait017. My daughter will be reading this for summer reading for school.

Journal Entry 4 by tabby-cat-owner from Bellingham, Washington USA on Thursday, July 22, 2004
Since I ended up being given two copies of "Cry, the Beloved Country", I took this to my daughter's school and left it in a room of used books available free for students, these are books that the students will definitely be using this next year.

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.

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putting this into Pyan's "Get these Books on the Road" Bookbox

Journal Entry 6 by Pyan from Menasha, Wisconsin USA on Saturday, April 2, 2005
Removed from Pyan's Get These Books on the Road bookbox.

Journal Entry 7 by Pyan from Menasha, Wisconsin USA on Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Awesome plot, with a fast moving pace. Highly recommend!

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

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Sending off to Quinnsmom -- not sure if you've read this one, but "Blue Rose" needed a traveling companion. ;)

Journal Entry 9 by quinnsmom from Hobe Sound, Florida USA on Monday, September 12, 2005
Oh! It IS for me! LOL...
Thanks -- a total surprise book -- the best kind! And I haven't read it yet! LOL


Journal Entry 10 by quinnsmom from Hobe Sound, Florida USA on Saturday, February 25, 2006
I sat down with this book this afternoon and just finished it. A very moving and thoughtful book, one I have been meaning to read for a long time then decided against doing so with the hype from it being in Oprah's book club. But since I've been trying to read down the TBR pile, I thought well, there's no time like the present. So 4 hours later, here I am journaling it. This one I definitely recommend, to anyone even remotely interested in the history of apartheid or the effects of colonization in Africa (or any country for that matter). The entire book, as some reviewer put it, is a true "lamentation" for Africa under the unfair and grossly de-humanizing influence of the British. And when you think that it's no longer relevant for today's world, think again.

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.

Journal Entry 11 by queenfrog from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Canada on Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Look what arrived today!! Thanks so much for sending this to add to my Oprah bookclub collection. I really do appreciate it.

Journal Entry 12 by queenfrog at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Canada on Monday, March 18, 2024
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