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CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

by | Read by Michael York

Classics • 10 hrs. • Unabridged • © 1945

This moving and apparently timeless novel is as fresh and powerful as it was upon its first release in 1948. Its Zulu hero, Stephen Kumalo, a modest and very provincial Anglican priest, goes to Johannesburg to find his sister, gone to the bad in the big city, and his only child, Absolom, about whom there will be worse news. The marvelous British actor Michael York brings the white South Africans, with their idealism, their prejudices, and their own provinciality, vividly to life. His native African characters, perhaps inevitably, sound more Anglo than tribal, but it makes small difference. With the haunting, incantatory rhythms of its language and the human complexity of its story, this is a polished, elegant production of a true classic. B.G. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2008]

Trade Ed. • Blackstone Audiobooks • 2008

CD ISBN 9781433213694 $19.95 • Eight CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

 

Library Ed. • Blackstone Audiobooks • 2008

CS ISBN 9781433213663 $59.95 • Seven cassettes

CD ISBN 9781433213670 $80.00 • Eight CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781433213687 $29.95 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

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