Alan Paton

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...

Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton

Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible in application. To prove it, Paton tells us the story of Pieter, a white policeman, who has an affair with a native girl. He is betrayed and reported, and thus brings shame on himself and his family.