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Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful

Social protest and unresolved divisions animate Alan Paton's portrait of South Africa, where a beautiful landscape holds painful national contradictions.

Literary fiction

Screen adaptation

Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

A rural Zulu pastor searches Johannesburg for his family, until his son's fate binds him to another grieving father.

Literary fiction

Tales from a Troubled Land

Alan Paton

Ten stories explore intimate encounters where South Africa's racial injustice turns ordinary choices into difficult tests of conscience and compassion.

Short stories

Too Late the Phalarope

Alan Paton

A respected police officer breaks apartheid's ban on interracial relationships and faces the devastating judgement of his family and community.

Literary fiction

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