Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948, Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty. This is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people...