Reviews

• 久し振りに気持ちよく英語を読む

  懐かしいpenguinブックに、詠み易いブックがあるのを知った。書評で好評だったので,古本を探して買った。今も、辞書と首っ引きで読んでいる途中です。

• A gripping story

  It is a blessing for a booklover to come across a story which is so deep like Cry the beloved country. The characters are dissected and made so real. The plot is awesome and the pace of the story is fast moving. Plotted in the depth of Apartheid South Africa, this story brought out the lamentation of a soul of a nation, a lamentation that is felt by all the different ethnic and racial groups involved. I watched the movie on the story 'Amok' and it gave the full visual presentation of the story. I will recommend this book to all booklovers with a curious mind about an era, a people and a nation that stared at disaster straight in the eyes and chose the option of peace. Also recommended: The Union moujik, Disciples of Fortune,Animal farm , The usurper and others, Disgrace

• Excellent!

  高校を卒業してすぐ読んだ、記念すべき初めての洋書でした。そんな私でも比較的、簡単に読めた作品です。ここから洋書にのめりこみました。 舞台は１９４０年代、南アフリカ。少数の白人が大多数を占める黒人を治める政府の中で、1人の黒人少年が白人を殺害し逃走。犯人の父親の息子探しの旅を通し、この時代の人種差別問題を扱った作品です。内容はもちろん、著者、Alan Patonの南アフリカの美しい大自然の描写は驚かされます。おすすめです♪

• Englisch macht Spass!

  Die Penguin Audio CD Packs sind super, wenn man zum geschriebenen englischen Wort einmal ein wenig Abwechslung haben will. Es gibt sie in 6 verschiedenen Leveln. Ein Buch ist immer so 100 Seiten lang (also gekürzte Originalfassung, aber trotzdem gut) und dabei sind mehrere CDs auf denen der gesamte Text vorgelesen wird. Für Ungeübte gut, weil man die richtige Aussprache hört, aber auch für Könner schön. Wer will kann auch nur hören - ohne Buch. Auch gut für unterwegs auf dem iPod! Mir machts Spass, es sind interessante Themen dabei und der Preis ist heiss (wenn man sieht, was andere, weitaus kürzere Hörbücher kosten). Empfehlenswert! Z.B. ein anderer Schwierigkeitsgrad: Red Pony. Audio CD-ROM Pack Level 4 (Penguin Longman Active Reading)

• A real masterpiece

  This book does a great job in describing the life in South Africa during the apartheid regime. The plot is engaging and captivating, though some parts present very harsh life conditions. The author is a magician of the written word. Some parts are nothing less than poetic prose. He was able to reflect the Zulu language in rythm and grammar while writing in pure English. The characters are deep and round. Though the basic plot and the overall situation is tragetic and depressing, hope is never lost. The two giant beloved characters, Kumalo and Jarvis, entangled by their joint tragedy, show us that even under the worst conditions and after grieving the most painful loss, there is a much better way than eternal hate and revenge. They show us that a lot of agony can be avoided if people choose love and compassion rather than hate and segregation. They show the right way native African should have been treated, without breaking the tribes' social structures that led to lost generations that live desolate life which drives them to crime and brutality that yield havoc on all people, black and white altogether.

• Sudafrica

  EXCELENTE DESCRPCION DE sUDAFRICA , Alan Paton gran escritor y político. Las emociones del Reverend uno se las puede hacer suyas, un diez sobre diez

• Sobering, yet wonderful.

  I had been speaking with a friend of South African descent about South Africa, and that I really knew so little of that country. He recommended that I read this book. He could not have made a better recommendation. I could not put the book down once I started reading it. The book is many things: distressing in its description of black and white relations; wonderful in its description of life in the country and in Johannesburg; eminently eloquent character descriptions; and sobering in its tale. Highly recommended.

• Old classic

  An old classic . Yet relevant in modern days .

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