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Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
Reverend Stephen Kumalo of Ndotsheni, a small village in South Africa, goes one day to the capital Johannesburg, where both his sister Gertrude and his son Absalom have disappeared. He ends up finding them both, but too late because Absalom is accused of something terrible : the murder of a white man. While the main thread is Absalom's trial, we see life in Ndotsheni, the relations between races, for good and for bad. I've read reviews saying South Africa was like a separate character, and this is definitely true.
The way it's written, almost orally and with lots of repetitions, could have become annoying and pretentious, but in this case it just worked. The apparent simplicity in the language used made the story told seem deeper, like we understood more by not having to force ourselves to try to understand a convoluted sentence. If that makes sense XD
And now I want to learn Zulu!
The way it's written, almost orally and with lots of repetitions, could have become annoying and pretentious, but in this case it just worked. The apparent simplicity in the language used made the story told seem deeper, like we understood more by not having to force ourselves to try to understand a convoluted sentence. If that makes sense XD
And now I want to learn Zulu!