Cry, The Beloved Country: A nationalist perspective

“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”-Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

CRY, The Beloved Country is a novel of Alan Paton. It is my first encounter with apartheid South Africa. It is so passionate and engrossing that I was moved to tears, in the same manner that I was so captured and obsessed by the ideas flowing on the pages of the novel, when I read Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Ignacio Silone’s Bread and Wine.