Le chagrin vaut mieux que la peur, répéta le Père Vincent qui s'obstinait. La peur est un voyage, un terrible voyage, mais le chagrin au moins est une arrivée.Nul ne sait ce que c'est que la vie, car la vie est un secret.
I hated this book--but don't mind me, mine is very much a minority report. This was assigned to me in high school, and I hated this then and resorted to Monarch Notes to spare myself. And mind you, this isn't a long book--less than two hundred pages. I saw one of the reasons I undoubtedly disliked i...
Beautiful writing, that is why this book gets four stars. But what do I mean by beautiful writing? That can mean so much. Here every sentence is simple. Every thought is simple. It is writing where all words that can be removed are removed. What remains is clear and concise and beautiful. The core i...
Beautifully written, difficult in content, rich in character and long streams of narration. Cry, The Beloved Country tackles many issues in South Africa head on (or at least it seems so to me, but I have a regrettable lack of knowledge of South African history.) Or should I say Africa? In the book, ...
Few words could be used to describe this novel and the impact it has made on me. I wish to go back and read it again, immediately following my first reading. I wish to read each word slowly, savor them, taste them. I wish to consider deep and long that of which the author speaks. I wish to gain ...
Not my favorite book in the world... I'd give it more like 2.5 stars. It is difficult to get through bc the writing style is so different. The story is sad and a view into apartheid
An award winning classic about Stephen Kumalu, a Zulu pastor, whose son accidentally murders a white man in South Africa. This book beautifully describes the agony of the racial tension in South Africa and the sad lives of the rural people as they try to maintain their lives under European rule. T...
There are so many layers of meaning in this book. You can't just close it after the last page and say, "Yep, I read it. Here's what it's about..." The story is fairly simply told, almost understated, but you can feel the author's love for his country and its people, warts and all. There's so muc...
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