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TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE is set in South Africa, as well as its predecessor, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. And like that earlier novel, TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE uses the lives of ordinary people to illustrate the inhuman quality of South African apartheid.
Racial segregation is odious in concept, impossible in application. To prove it, Paton tells us the story of Pieter, a white policeman, who has an affair with a native girl. He is betrayed and reported, and thus brings shame on himself and his family.
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Rex Thrown
reviewed Too Late the Phalarope on September 24, 2013 Too Late the Phalarope
"Yet it comes to me that it is not the judgment of God but that of men which is a stranger to compassion; for the Lord said, go thou and sin no more."
The feeling of finishing a book that tips you into a better world and a better self and a greater heartbreak.
I had to give this book some space before I wrote about it. Paton has long been one of my favorite authors, solely on the strength of his book Cry, the Beloved Country. While some girls were having normal childhoods and writing A Walk to Remember quotes on their Chucks, I wasn't allowed to read Nicholas Sparks (I understand now, Mom!! I understand!!) so I filled my entire copy book with passages from Cry. I still know some of them by heart.
So it's strange to me that I took so long (ten years!?) to get around to reading another of Paton's novels. I tried to start it once and was frightened away by the promise of tragedy in the first few pages. The novel is written from the perspective of a family member after a family tragedy has already passed. The aunt of the main character, our narrator reveals in the first few pages that her nephew brought destruction on her family, but that she feels compelled to tell his story without judgment.
I won't say any more at the risk of spoiling anything, but I will say -- don't let the darkness of the premise turn you away from this novel. Like Cry, Paton's most popular book, Phalarope reaches deep into the most broken parts of human relationships, human systems, and the human soul. He forces us to look at the complexity of good and evil, demanding justice for systematic evil, but refusing to condemn. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the nature of shame, acceptance, friendship, and the ways in which we choose either to destroy or give life to one another.
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