Tales From a Troubled Land

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1961).

Price: $20.00

Hardcover. First edition. Two facing pages with corresponding circular abrasions to several words but affected text still legible overall, endpapers with light offsetting, bottom edge with a tiny spot, still very good or better in a very good dust jacket with some toning, light fading to the spine and modest edgewear. Ten short stories set in South Africa, from the author of *Cry, the Beloved Country*.

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Item #42303 Tales From a Troubled Land. Alan PATON.

Alan Paton
birth name: Alan Stewart Paton
born: 1/11/1903
died: 4/12/1988

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Biography

South African writer best known for his first novel, Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), which brought international attention to the issue of apartheid. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Many critics consider his second novel, Too Late the Phalarope, even better than his first, and in the mid-1950s Paton's name was bandied about as an up-and-coming contender for the Nobel Prize. But the international success of Cry left him financially free to pursue his interest in progressive politics. He helped to form and then lead his nation's Liberal Party as a non-racial alternative to apartheid, and from then on spent more time as a politician advocating social change than as an author. The Liberal Party was officially banned by South Africa in 1968.more