Cry, The Beloved Country vs In memoriam: Which Should You Read?
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Cry, The Beloved Country
“IT IS SOME eleven years since the first Author's Note was written.”
This book is the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, and an immediate worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1948. Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white…
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The verdict
- Readers rate In memoriam highest: In memoriam 4.5 · Cry, The Beloved Country 3.9.
- In memoriam has the widest readership — 89413 ratings behind its score.
- Cry, The Beloved Country runs the darker storyline; In memoriam stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Cry, The Beloved Country | In memoriam | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (81000) | 4.5 (89413) |
| Hardcover | 2.5 (2) | 3.4 (5) |
| Google Books | 2.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (171) | — |
Reception
| Cry, The Beloved Country | In memoriam | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 81000 | 89413 |
| Editions | 59 | 49 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 54502 | — |
| Reading it now | 1871 | — |
| Written reviews | 5566 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4147 | 593 |
| Pages | 258 | 252 |