Too Late the Phalarope found in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Too Late the Phalarope Too Late the Phalarope is the second novel of Alan Paton, the South African author who is best known for writing "Cry, the Beloved Country". It was published in 1953, and was the last novel he published before "Ah, but Your Land is Beautiful" in 1981. The summary on the dust jacket of the first UK edition reads, in part; 'The setting is again South Africa, but the tragedy this time is of a white man who, for complicated reasons, some of them not unconnected with his childhood
Cry, the Beloved Country and an acquittal for the two other defendants. Kumalo arranges for Absalom to marry the girl who bears his child, and they bid farewell. The morning of his departure, Kumalo rouses his new family to bring them back to Ndotsheni, only to find that Gertrude has disappeared. Kumalo is now deeply aware of how his people have lost the tribal structure that once held them together, and returns to his village troubled by the situation. It turns out that James Jarvis has been having similar thoughts. Arthur Jarvis's young son befriends Kumalo. As the young boy and the old man