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Books : Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation
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Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation by: Alan Paton |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780684818948 ISBN: 0684818949 Label: Prentice Hall & IBD & Scribner Manufacturer: Prentice Hall & IBD & Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 316 Publication Date: December 18, 1995 Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD & Scribner Studio: Prentice Hall & IBD & Scribner Sales Rank: 1294858 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Everybody Should Read This BookThis book was on Oprah's list for a reason. Read it ... and weep. I did, again, and again, and again. In a world where people take things for granted it's important to understand that others may have struggled. Without giving anything away the main character taught me a lot about compassion. Beautifully written, one seamless poem .. and lessons that will remain with me for a very long time. Rating: - splendour beyond any singing of itthe beauty of this marvelous novel is in its language and that you cannot help but become one with long suffering Umfundisi Khumalo like in often most quoted phrases `it was the best of time,it was the worst of time`by dickens and `turning and turning in widening gyre` w b yeats in Chinua Achebe novel` things fall apart` cry the beloved country has managed to secure it`s immortalized phrasing `there is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo` the langauge is beautiful beyond any singing of it,kind of that lingers on after you have long finished the book, true it was written by white man,about mostly black country,but the book came up with the idea of `truth and reconciliation `long before 1994 in south africa, ... Read More: Rating:  - An important vision of South AfricaIt is having read this book that i understand Coetzee's Disgrace so much better. Between them they are almost like a conversation being shouted across the years, from pre apartheid to post-apartheid. It is a conversation about South Africa and its people, the terrible impossibility and the hesitant optimism. There is such humility in Paton's writing, such understanding and forgiveness. This is a book which lives and breathes South Africa. I feel this despite never having been there; for it is alive in these precious words. Rating: - Classic Tale in times of apartheidHave you ever set up dominoes on their end all in a line, then once they are all set up you touch the first one and it sets off a cascade effect knocking them all over one at a time? The beginning of the game is slow and tedious, but the cascade effect is worth it. Some classics are like setting up dominoes. They begin slowly, and the unfortunate reader will put the book down in disgust and never return to it. A more persistent reader is richly rewarded for their patience. Cry, The Beloved Country is that kind of a classic, others are Tale of Two Cities, Dickens and Jane Eyre, Bronte. The language is beautiful, I don't enjoy flowery descriptions of scenery, but in Cry the descriptions helped you feel as if you were there without ... Read More: Rating: - cry, the beloved country'Cry, the beloved country' is a beautiful book about discrimination of black people. It is situated in South Africa in 1948. It is written from different viewpoints, so you can accept the role that you like the most. The landscape has been described splendidly. The story never stops, however many personages appear and that do not simplify it. |
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