Cry ,the Beloved Country

This is a journey I have always feared...:

"'This is a journey I have always feared-- where my people have gone never to return. The young men have gone to the mines, so the young women have gone to find them. For who can enjoy the lovely land, and the sun that pours down on the earth, when white will not live equally with black, a land where the white man has everything and the black man has nothing?'"

This is from the film site of Cry, the Beloved Country. I remember reading this powerful novel a long time ago. It was one of those novels which had a formative impact on me. I am pleased to see it has been picked up by magazines and Oprah Winnfrey's bookclub as a must read. Without knowing it had made a come back I had been thinking of finding my copy of Alan Paton's novel and blogging about it. So much of it is relevant in today's political landscape. That is the hallmark of a true classic. It transcends time.