Alan M Paton from Johnston, IA, age 36

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3 men charged with murder, suspected rape of elderly South African nun

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missionaries from several countries, including Germany and Korea, live at the convent in the scenic Ixopo region of KwaZulu-Natal province. The area's green rolling hills were made famous by the film, "Cry, The Beloved Country," starring American actor James Earl Jones, and based on the novel by Alan Paton.

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Apr 29, 2015

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Bookends — Jul 20, 2014

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Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton: In search of missing family members, a Zulu priest leaves his South African village for Johannesburg in the 1940s. But with the backdrop of the violence and racial tension of apartheid, the going is treacherous.

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Jul 20, 2014

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Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies

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Gordimer's first novel, "The Lying Days," appeared in 1953, and she acknowledged that it had autobiographical elements. A New York Times reviewer compared it to Alan Paton's "Cry the Beloved Country," saying Gordimer's work "is the longer, the richer, intellectually the more exciting."

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Jul 14, 2014

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Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid

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the engineer who helps this Johannesburg Jean Valjean elude his Afrikaner Javert (Nicol Williamson). And in 1951 theyoung Poitier costarred in a British-backed film version of Alan Patons novelCry, the Beloved Countryperhaps the first race drama shot in South Africa in the apartheid era.

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Dec 07, 2013

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Rovos Rail: Great Train Journeys

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subject of Paul Therouxs Dark Star Safari, published in 2002. One of the best-known and most enduring novels about pre-apartheid social structures is Alan Patons moving Cry, the Beloved Country, published in 1948, which sold more than 15 million copies before Patons death in 1988. His t

which launched the career of Michael Caine, remains an outstanding movie; it tells the story of the heroic defence of Rorkes Drift during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. Alan Patons Cry, the Beloved Country was made into a film by Zoltan Korda in 1951, starring a 24-year-old Sidney Poitier. The

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May 07, 2013

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Publications

Wikipedia

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Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. Contents. 1 Family; 2 Early career; 3 After...

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Journey Continued: An Autobiography

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0020359551

Cry, the Beloved Country

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0020532105

Cry, the Beloved Country

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0023918101

Ah, but Your Land Is Beautiful

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0224019813

Kontakion for You Departed

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0224617168

The Long View

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0269992898

Instrument of Thy Peace

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0345352157

The Land and People of South Africa.

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Author

Alan Paton

ISBN #

0397313020

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Alan Paton: A Biography

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Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, a classic of modern literature still read by thousands of people every year, brought international attention to the political turmoil in South Africa and its repressive system of apartheid when it was published in 1948. Few people, however, are aware of Paton's...

Author

Peter F. Alexander

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

536

Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN #

0198112378

EAN Code

9780198112372

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Too Late The Phalarope

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TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE is set in South Africa, as well as its predecessor, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. And like that earlier novel, TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE uses the lives of ordinary people to illustrate the inhuman quality of South African apartheid. Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible...

Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Paperback

Pages

288

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN #

0684818957

EAN Code

9780684818955

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Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country (Barron's Book Notes)

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A lively, in-depth discussion of CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. Students are taken on an exciting journey of discovery through every scene or chapter. Also included are unique text notes, ideas for themes and term papers, notes on the author's life as well as a glossary.

Author

Rose Sallberg Kam

Binding

Paperback

Pages

132

Publisher

Barron's Educational Series

ISBN #

0764191608

EAN Code

9780764191602

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Towards the mountain: An autobiography

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Hardcover with jacket. Scribner (1980)

Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

320

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN #

0684165961

EAN Code

9780684165967

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Kontakion for You Departed

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Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

144

Publisher

Jonathan Cape Ltd

ISBN #

0224617168

EAN Code

9780224617161

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Ah but Your Land Is Beautiful

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For millions of readers worldwide, Alan Paton's books have vividly described life in contemporary South Africa. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful revolves around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society. Writing a...

Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Paperback

Pages

288

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN #

068482583X

EAN Code

9780684825830

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Cry, the Beloved Country

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An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, 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.Cry, the beloved country,...

Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Paperback

Pages

316

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN #

0743262174

EAN Code

9780743262170

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Tales from a Troubled Land

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With a mixture of compassion and despair, this collection of ten short stories by the distinguished author of 'Cry, the Beloved Country' speaks eloquently yet incisively of the injustices of the author's native land, South Africa.

Author

Alan Paton

Binding

Paperback

Pages

128

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN #

0684825848

EAN Code

9780684825847