Best Selling Books by Alan Paton

La belleza de la tierra sudafricana llena toda esta novela y se convierte en una de sus principales protagonistas. Ambientada en los años previos a la instauración del apartheid, el autor nos narra el destino de dos padres, un pastor negro anglicano y un terrateniente blanco, que se cruza a causa de un trágico suceso. El anciano Kumalo se ve impelido a dejar su pequeña iglesia local en las colinas para adentrase en la confusa y tensa Johannesburgo de finales de los 1940 en busca de su hijo Absalom... Un relato que llega directamente al corazón y que inspira una fe renovada en la dignidad del hombre. Un auténtico clásico, apasionadamente africano, intemporal y universal, y sobre todo una historia sobre la abnegación de un padre. "Es la novela más influyente de cuantas se han escrito en Sudáfrica y jugó un gran papel en la toma de conciencia popular... Hizo comprender que el apartheid no era simplemente una ignominia abstracta, sino una distorsión de las relaciones humanas, del propio espíritu humano". Nadine Gordimer, premio Nobel sudafricana

A classic collection of 20 short stories, the core of which is formed by Alan Paton''s famous first volume of short stories Debbie Go Home (1961), published in the US as Tales from a Troubled Land. The rest of the stories are taken from other sources, 10 of them from Paton''s last volume, Knocking on the Door (1975). The collection is prefaced by Paton''s lively interview of himself. c2008.

The book explains how hadiths originated and developed in the early years and centuries of Islam and their part in the development of Islamic law.A hadith is a report of a statement or action of the Prophet Muhammad. They provide the Sunna of the Prophet; his example and guidance on how to behave. This information is of the utmost importance to Muslims because the Quran calls upon Muslims to follow the example and instructions of the Prophet. The Quran itself provides relatively little detail on legal and behavioural matters and hadiths became the foundation and source of Islamic law alongside the Quran. The two most famous hadith collections, Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, are regarded as genuine Islamic sacred books by Sunni Muslims.At the beginning hadiths were transmitted orally and were also fabricated for sectarian and religious reasons. The book explains what early Islamic hadith scholars did to determine hadith authenticity and summarises hadith research by modern Western scholars.It is for readers who want more than an overview; who want some depth on key topics, but don''t have the time to do all the reading. It covers all important aspects of the subject including complex but vital matters professional scholars cover and popular works often ignore and turns complicated arguments into accessible text for non-specialists and students.

Een zwarte dominee in het door apartheid beheerste Zuid-Afrika van 1946 reist naar Johannesburg om zijn zuster en zoon terug te vinden..