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Cry, The Beloved Country

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Michael York

9 Hours 48 Minutes

Blackstone Audiobooks

May 2008

Audio Book Summary

A worldwide bestseller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.

Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also the story of a land and a people torn by racial injustice. The book is written with such keen compassion and understanding that the listener shares fully in the gravity of the characters’ situations.

Paton said of his book: “It is a song of love for one’s far distant country.” Thus, it is a tale that is passionately African while also being timeless and universal. Ultimately, Cry, the Beloved Country is a work of love and hope, courage and tragedy, born of the dignity of man.

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  • Anonymous

    Enjoyed this book. A meaningful story. The characters are very good people and conduct themselves in a manner that is beyond anything I have ever seen.

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  • Mimi H.

    Michael York is a fantastic lector. He does many different accents so convincingly. The passasges that narrarate a brutal and moving story line, are gently and captivatingly presented. I'm giving this audiobook an A+.

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  • Linda M.

    The book is good but I couldn’t finish it due to Michael York’s sometimes infantile narrative between the characters’ speech. He impersonates very well but when doing straight narrative sounds like he is telling a children’ story. A real shame.

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