Alan Paton Trust

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speaks to the deeper question of abandonment, when self-interest is the order of the day.

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Timeless in its message, this tale of oppressor retribution going to the extremes, not on the perpetrators of a crime, but on the innocent among a whole people guilty only of having been born into an ethnic and racial category, at the same time,

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"Life for a Life" is an intense short story by Alan Paton in which the social dynamics of rural life, in an unjust system, lead to deadly consequences.

Life for a Life

A short story by Alan Paton

Published by: Spaced Ellipses
© Alan Paton Will Trust

Date of publication: 2025
4151 words
14 pages
Cover Design: Joshua Corban Publishing

R70
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The Trust extends our gratitude to Club Editor, for the Catalan (Brazil) *Plora, pàtria estimada* translation of *Cry, the Beloved Country* and translated by Ramon Planes.

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The elders brought into the gravity-spell of Ha'penny's small world, soon come to learn the value of a little child's hope, able to overcome the solidity of the institution in which he has, at least, found a friend.

“Ha’penny” is a truly touching short story by Alan Paton about a young and precocious former street child, now imprisoned in a reformatory, who has imagined for himself a life more compassionate than the one he has been forced to live.

Ha'penny

A short story by Alan Paton

Published by: Spaced Ellipses
© Alan Paton Will Trust

Date of publication: 2025
1728 words
6 pages
Cover Design: Joshua Corban Publishing

R30
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Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

Cry, the Beloved Country, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice.

An Oprah Book Club selection, Cry, the Beloved Country, was an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.

“A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character so immediate and full, its events so compelling, and its understanding so compassionate that to read the book is to share intimately, even to the point of catharsis, in the grave human experience.”
—The New York Times

About The Book

“The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.”
—The New Republic

World English for Alan Paton's *Cry, the Beloved Country* is with Simon & Schuster🔑: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Cry-th...

The Paton Trust licenses translations, and this all-time classic (+5m sold) can therefore also be found in Turkish, Malay, Catalan, Spanish (new ed. coming soon!) and more!

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where each's will to resistance against the power structures of their day, is pitted against the other, despite their strong familial bonds, their duty to each other, and their love.

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"Debbie Go Home" is a short story by Alan Paton that would make an excellent stage play for its well-wrought and intense interpersonal dynamics between family members, caught in a crux moment in their lives,

Debbie Go Home

A short story by Alan Paton

Published by: Spaced Ellipses
© Alan Paton Will Trust

Date of publication: 2025
3795 words
13 pages
Cover Design: Joshua Corban Publishing

R65
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For a commemoration of the 'End Conscription Campaign' and 'The Anti-conscription movement', in which Alan Paton and Peter Graham Moll played vital roles, see:
🔑: www.saha.org.za/ecc25/index....

The Trust extends heartfelt appreciation to Peter Graham Moll, who received waivered permission for the use of Alan Paton's poem "Caprivi Lament" and then surprised us, with 2 exquisite hardcopies of his memoir, 'Conscientious Objector to the Apartheid Army'.

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much." - Alan Paton, 'Cry, the Beloved Country'

The fullness of this sentiment, and its realisation from generation to generation is but a part of what makes this now all-time classic novel one of the most heartfelt to have ever been written, and in its time.

Death of a Tsotsi

A short story by Alan Paton

Published by: Spaced Ellipses
© Alan Paton Will Trust

Date of publication: 2025
2565 words
9 pages
Cover Design: Joshua Corban Publishing

Price: R45.00
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The Trust is over-the-moon and round the sun to announce that the SADC edition of Alan Paton's *Instrument of Thy Peace*, is now licensed.

The AudioBook of the US edition of *Instrument of Peace* is now in the world!

For more, see:
🔑: www.whitakerhouse.com/product/inst...

The trust has successfully concluded negotiations and we look forward to bringing this book to a Spanish-speaking audience the world over.

Agent's World Book Day Choice
'Lafa elihle kakhulu'
The IsiZulu translation of Alan Paton's 'Cry, the Beloved Country' by C.L.S. Nyembezi and published by Shuter & Shooter Publishers

R113.95 (hardcopy)
R56.98 (e-book)
🔑: www.shuters.co.za/pages/store/...

Cover Reveal for the new United States edition of Alan Paton's 'Instrument of Thy Peace' set for publication on May 13, 2025.

🚀 The Alan Paton Legacy Project . . . is now launched 🚀

The Alan Paton Trust is over the moon to announce the launch of our new website!

For more, see:
🔑: www.alanpatontrust.co.za