Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton is a classic novel from South Africa.

This is an important novel in South Africa’s history, and was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.

The story  is  a tragedy about blacks and whites in  South Africa just before apartheid. It is beautifully written.