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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton9th Grade pick #47 · 320 pages · ISBN 9780743262170As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.About this book
Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo leaves his village for Johannesburg to search for his sister and his son Absalom, who has been arrested for the murder of a white man. Alan Paton's lyrical classic of pre-apartheid South Africa is a story of racial injustice, fathers and sons, and hard-won hope. 