by John Briley · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140108910
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«Cry Freedom» is John Briley's novel about apartheid, published by Penguin in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The novel is the novelization of the screenplay of the eponymous film by Richard Attenborough. The work recreates the friendship between white journalist Donald Woods and black activist Steve Biko in apartheid South Africa, and through that relationship shows racial repression, peaceful resistance and the personal cost of the struggle for freedom.
This edition was published on 19 November 1987. The cover shows two men walking through a field of tall grass.
For readers interested in the recent history of South Africa, the fight for civil rights and novels based on true events.
Richard John Briley was an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films. He won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards for Gandhi (1982). As well as film scripts, he wrote for television and theatre, and published several novels.
