Cry The Beloved Country: Book Review

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the white people, but having little success.  It is this so called racism
that is essential to the setting of the story. Without it, the book would not
have as much of an impact as it does.

The story begins, as many great stories have begun, with a solitary man taking a
long and dangerous journey to a distant land. The man is an Anglican Zulu priest,
Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and the journey is to the white-ran Johannesburg in 1946.
Like a weary prophet taking a biblical sojourn to Sodom, Kumalo is seeking out
lost members of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big
city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude, who has become a prostitute: and
mostly, his son Absalom, who has disappeared into the darkness as surely as the
original Absalom of the Old Testament was lost to King David. Once he arrives,
the nave Kumalo is immediately robbed, and it isnt until he finds the enigmatic
but helpful Father Msimangu that he is able to begin his search, a search that
will ...

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