Suðurafrikanski høvundurin Alan Paton (1903-1988) stovnaði Suðurafrikanska Frælsisflokkin og var formaður í honum frá 1953, til flokkurin var bannlýstur í 1968 við lóg um bann fyri politiskt uppíbland.

Flokkurin var í andstøðu til apartheid-politikkin og vísti á gongdar leiðir í suðurafrikanskum stjórnarpolitikki, sum ikki vóru grundaðar á rasistiskan hugburð.

Eftir kríggið gjørdi Alan Paton eina ferð til Evropa og Amerika at kanna fongsulsviðurskifti. Á hesari ferð skrivaði hann skaldsøguna Grát, mítt elskaða land- tær fyrstu síðurnar á einum hotellkamari í Tróndheimi og tær seinastu í San Fransisco. Bókin varð prentað í 1948.

Skaldsøgan lýsir felags skuld og vinalag, sum hevjar seg upp um allar fordómar um suðurafrikanaran.

Stephen Kumalo, ein aldrandi Zulu prestur, fer úr heimbygdini til Johannesburg og fær at vita, at einasti sonur hansara hevur myrt James Jarvis, ið er einasti sonur ein hvítan mann.

Sorgartilburðurin knýtir menninar saman, og teir fara undir arbeiðið at gera enda á skilaloysinum.

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South African writer Alan Paton (1903-1988) founded the Liberal Party of South Africa and was the party’s president from 1953 until its forced dissolution by the regime in 1968 for political interference.

The party opposed apartheid politics and promoted instead the progression of South African politics that were not based on racist thinking.

After the war, Allan Paton made a trip to Europe and the United States to examine various prison conditions. During his travels he wrote the novel Cry, The Beloved Country. The first pages were written in a hotel room in Trondheim and the final pages in San Francisco. The book was printed in 1948.

The novel depicts the common guilt as well as the friendships that arise from the prejudices that surround South Africans. Stephen Kumalo, an elderly Zulu pastor, leaves his hometown and travels to Johannesburg where he discovers that his only son has murdered James Jarvis, the only son of a white man.

The tragic event brings the two men closer together and they begin to work towards putting an end to all the absurdity.

© 2020 Sprotin (Lydbog): 9789997210999

Oversættere: Finnbogi Ísakson

Release date

Lydbog: 12. oktober 2020