Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful is set in the 1950s, the time of the Passive Resistance campaign, the Sophiatown removals, the emergence of the South African Liberal Party and the early stages of the Nationalist government in power. Revolving around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society, in a series of vivid and compelling episodes, Alan Paton examines what happens between people when such political events overtake their lives.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Alan Paton
EAN: 9780099437277
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 288
WEIGHT: 203 g
HEIGHT: 198 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing
DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-08-01
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 129 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Alan Paton was born on January 11, 1903 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Paton became a science teacher in 1925, the start of a varied career, which ran parallel to his writing. He died in 1988.