Kumalo goes to Johannesburg to help her and also to find his son Absalom, who had gone to the city to look for Gertrude but never came home. Msimangu urges Kumalo to come to the city to help his sister Gertrude, because she is ill. The story begins in the village of Ixopo Ndotsheni, where the Christian priest Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu, receives a letter from the priest Theophilus Msimangu in Johannesburg. 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. Two cinema adaptations of the book have been made, the first in 1951 and the second in 1995. 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.Īmerican 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." It remains one of the best-known works of South African literature. Cry, the Beloved Country is a 1948 novel by South African writer Alan Paton.
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