Let's Talk About Books: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patan

Join Let's Talk About Books, a monthly book club that is currently meeting via Zoom.  

The meeting is free and open to everyone interested, whether they have read the book or not.

For our May meeting, we will be reading Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Patan with the hour-long discussion being led by Barbara Hauser.  Copies are available at the main desk for checkout.  The eBook version is available on Libby.

Synopsis:

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published 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, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

A copy of the meeting's link will go out the Monday leading up to the event.  Another email with the meeting's link will also go out the Friday morning of the event.