Cry,The Beloved Country

Pocketbok. Penguin Books . 1948. 239 sidor.

Hyggligt skick. This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Cry, the Beloved Country (disambiguation).
Cry, the Beloved Country
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First US edition
Author Alan Paton
Country South Africa
Language English
Genre novel
Set in Johannesburg and Natal, 1940s
Publisher Scribners (USA) & Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date 1 February 1948[1]
Media type Print (hard~ & paperback)
Pages 256 (hardback ed., UK) 273 (hardback ed., US)
ISBN 0-224-60578-X (hardback edition, UK)
OCLC 13487773
Dewey Decimal 823.914
LC Class PR9369.3 .P37
Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton. Set in the prelude to apartheid in South Africa, it follows a black village priest and a white farmer who must deal with news of a murder.

American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading… Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead."[2] It remains one of the best-known works of South African literature.[3][4]

Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. The novel was also adapted as a musical called Lost in the Stars (1949), with a book by the American writer Maxwell Anderson and music composed by the German emigre Kurt Weill.