Which is a 1948 novel by Alan Paton which is set in South Africa?

Question

The novel 'Q & A', on which 8 Oscar awards winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' (2008) is based, was authored by which Indian civil servant ?

Answer 1

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton. It was first published in 1948. The American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading ... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead.