Books by Alan Paton and Complete Book Reviews
Alan Paton, Author Scribner Book Company $22.5 (315p) ISBN 978-0-684-19127-0
In these 90 short newspaper pieces (and one poem) reprinted from the last two decades, the noted South African novelist ( Cry, the Beloved Country ), who died last year at the age of 85, comments on apartheid, its causes and effects, proponents and...
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Alan Paton, Author Scribner Book Company $0 (308p) ISBN 978-0-684-18946-8
In this sequel to Towards the Mountain , South African writer Paton describes the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 in which 69 protesters were killed, many shot in the back. But Paton, who died last April, concludes that H. F. Verwoerd, architect of...
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Alan Paton, Author, Michael York, Read by , read by Michael York. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-1369-4
In search of missing family members, Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo leaves his South African village to traverse the deep and perplexing city of Johannesburg in the 1940s. With his sister turned prostitute, his brother turned labor protestor and his son,
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