In Alan Paton's modern classic, a father must come to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid. Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu priest in 1940s South Africa, leaves his small village and ventures to Johannesburg to search for his brother and sister. Dismayed by the lack of harmony in the city, Stephen becomes even more distressed to discover that his sister has become a prostitute and that his brother has been arrested for murder.
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