New Releases by Alan Paton

Instrument of Peace: Meditations on the Prayer of Saint Francis is a series of reflections by Alan Paton based on the beloved prayer of the mystic Italian friar.

From the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) about a white policeman who has an affair with a native girl in South Africa. After violating his country’s ironclad law governing relationships between the races, a young white South African police lieutenant must struggle alone against the censure of an inflexible society, his family, and himself.

A classic collection of 20 short stories, the core of which is formed by Alan Paton''s famous first volume of short stories Debbie Go Home (1961), published in the US as Tales from a Troubled Land. The rest of the stories are taken from other sources, 10 of them from Paton''s last volume, Knocking on the Door (1975). The collection is prefaced by Paton''s lively interview of himself. c2008.

Paton''s deeply moving story of Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the backdrop of a land and people riven by racial inequality and injustice, remains the most famous and important novel in South Africa''s history. Published to coincide with the Miramax film release in December, starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.

Presents fifteen essays on the life and works of twentieth-century South African writer Alan Paton, plus an introductory biography and an overview of the novel''s characters and plot.

A distinguished collection of short pieces and essays written by Alan Paton that testify to the mounting and explosive violence that has rocked the modern history of South Africa.

Continues the first volume of the South African author''s autobiography beginning in 1948. Covers all of his writings and his political and personal life.

Set in contemporary South Africa, this novel examines the day-to-day experiences of men and women whose lives reflect the human cost of living under the constraints of apartheid.

Autobiografie van de Zuidafrikaanse auteur (geb. 1903) tot na de publikatie van zijn roman Cry the beloved country in 1948

An anthology of short stories, poems, essays and speeches; the writings run the range from Christian hope of overcoming injustice to deep feelings of paralysis and sterility. Chronologically arranged, they are divided into sections corresponding to Paton''s life interests: penal reform, literature and opposition to apartheid, first within, and then outside the Liberal Party. The speeches and articles often refer to martyrdom; the poems range from a humorous treatment of political self-censorship to the extraordinary 1946-47 ""The Prison House,"" a powerful statement of the so-called Bettelheim syndrome of identifying with the oppressor.

With a mixture of compassion and despair, this collection of ten short stories by the distinguished author of ''Cry, the Beloved Country'' speaks eloquently yet incisively of the injustices of the author''s native land, South Africa.